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Belarus to Host OSCE PA Meeting in 2017

© REUTERS / Leonhard FoegerDiplomats wait for the start of a meeting of the permanent council of the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on Nagorno-Karabakh in Vienna, Austria, April 5, 2016
Diplomats wait for the start of a meeting of the permanent council of the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on Nagorno-Karabakh in Vienna, Austria, April 5, 2016 - Sputnik International
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According to the chairman of the Belarusian parliament Republican Council, Belarus will be the country to host a OSCE PA meeting of the 2017.

MINSK (Sputnik) — Belarus will host a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA) in 2017, the chairman of the lower house of Belarusian parliament said on Saturday.

"A week ago, a meeting of the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly was held, and the members decided to hold a meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Belarus on July 5-9, 2017," Vladimir Andreichenko was quoted by state news agency Belta as saying.

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The upcoming meeting, which would be "a very serious event," would bring together 56 states, he recalled.

He stressed that Belarusian lawmakers will continue to pursue a "multitrack" policy regarding international cooperation "with the North and South, the West and the East."

The 2016 OSCE PA Annual Session took place in Helsinki July 5-9. The meeting commemorated the OSCE's founding document, the Helsinki Final Act, signed in the Finnish capital in 1975.

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