The House of Representatives will host, on 27 and 28 May 2022, an international conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OCSE) at the Filoxenia Conference Centre.The theme of the conference will be "Fighting Corruption, Defending Democracy: the role of national parliaments."
The conference will be attended by parliamentarians from thirty OSCE participating States and OSCE partner countries. Cypriot government officials have also been invited to participate as speakers, as well as representatives of international organisations, non-governmental organisations and the media.
The opening conference will be addressed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Anita Demetriou, the President of the C.S. Ms Margareta Cederfelt, the OSCE Chairperson, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Ioannis Kasoulides, the Vice-President of the C.A.C. Ms. Irene Charalambidou, OSCE Chairperson and Special Representative for Combating Corruption, Ambassador Artur Dmochowski, Special Envoy of the current Polish Chairmanship of the OSCE, and the Secretary General of the CSC. The main speakers at the first session of the conference, entitled "The role of national parliaments in preventing and fighting corruption", will be the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the OSCE Council of Ministers for the Fight against Corruption, Ms Anita Ramasastry, the Executive Secretary of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Ms Hanne Juncher, and the Vice-Chairperson of the CoC. The second session of the conference is entitled "Best practices for preventing corruption and enhancing transparency and accountability". Keynote speakers will be Mr. Roby Senderowitsch, Director of Governance Practice for Europe and Central Africa at the World Bank, Mr. Jon Vrushi, Research Analyst at Transparency International, and Mr. Konstantine Vardzelashvili.
The theme of the third and final session of the conference is "The contribution of independent institutions and the media in preventing and fighting corruption". The main speakers in this section will be the former Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus Mr. Kostas Clerides, the investigative journalists Mr. Drew Sullivan, co-founder of the "Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting" Project and Mr. Franz Wild, editor of the "Bureau of Investigative Journalism Enablers" Project and the Auditor General of the Republic of Cyprus Mr.
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