SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT THE FOCUS OF OSCE FORUM PREPARATORY MEETING
VIENNA, 29 March 2011 – The second preparatory meeting of this year’s Economic and Environmental Forum, focusing on the development of sustainable transport, will start in Druskininkai, Lithuania on Monday.
Eligijus Masiulis, the Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications, Vice Foreign Minister Egidijus Meilūnas, representing Lithuania’s 2011 OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Goran Svilanovic, the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, and Ričardas Malinauskas, Mayor of Druskininkai, will address the opening session.Experts and officials from the OSCE’s 56 participating States will discuss the promotion of sustainable transport in the OSCE area, the role of policies in enhancing innovation and technologies for environmentally-friendly transportation choices, the facilitation of international land transport and the integration of transport networks in the OSCE area.
The two-day meeting is organized by Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in co-operation with the Lithuanian Chairmanship. It is the second part of the Nineteenth OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which is focusing on "promotion of common actions and co-operation in the OSCE area in the fields of development of sustainable energy and transport".
The First Preparatory Meeting on sustainable energy was held on 7 and 8 February in Vienna. The concluding Meeting of the Forum will be held in Prague on 14 to 16 September. The Economic and Environmental Forum, the main annual event of the OSCE's economic and environmental dimension, gives political impetus to dialogue in this area and contributes to the generation of recommendations and follow-up activities.
Journalists are invited to the opening session and panel discussion of the meeting, from 9:30 to 10:30 and from 11:00-13:00 on Monday, 4 April, in the Nemunas Hall, Hotel Grand SPA Lietuva, V. Kudirkos str. 45, Druskininkai, Lithuania. To register and to arrange interviews with participants, please write to [email protected] and Gabriel.Leonte@osce.org.
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