Post-pandemic recovery and security – a road to resilience – focus of 2021 OSCE Mediterranean Partners conference

VIENNA, 8 October 2021 — Road to resilience: post-pandemic recovery and security in the OSCE and Mediterranean regions is the focus of the 2021 OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation conference, chaired by Poland, taking place online and in Vienna on 12 and 13 October.

Representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States, the six OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation — Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia — and several international organizations will participate.

The conference will start with a high-level discussion on “security and co-operation in the Mediterranean in light of the COVID-19 pandemic”. Participants will tackle the importance of sustainable and ‘green’ recovery, fighting pandemic-related organized crime, combating human trafficking in labour markets affected by the pandemic, and youth engagement.

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Ann Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau, Deputy Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania Megi Fino and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will open the conference.

Media representatives are invited to cover the opening of the conference from 13:00 to 13:30 via https://www.osce.org/live. There is no requirement to register.

The agenda and more information about the event are available here.

The OSCE has been holding annual conferences with its Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation since 1995.