When: 27 October 2014 (All day) - 28 October 2014 (All day)

Where: Hotel Sunce, Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The year of 2014 marks two important events for the OSCE dialogue with its Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation – firstly, the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the existing framework for co-operation between the OSCE and the Partners for Co-operation, namely of the Contact Group, and secondly, the twentieth OSCE Mediterranean Conference is taking place.  This year, Bosnia and Herzegovina is hosting this traditional and important event on the shores of the Mediterranean Basin, in Neum.

The Conference on the topic “Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons and Fight against Terrorism in the Mediterranean Region” will be held on 27 and 28 October 2014.

The four Sessions of the Conference will focus on:

Session I:     The issue at stake – current and emerging threats in small arms and light weapons illicit trafficking

Session II:    SALW illicit trafficking: routes and modalities

Session III: Counter-terrorism – shared experience and enhancing co-operation between the OSCE and the Mediterranean Partners

Session IV: Enhancing the role of women in public, political and economic life (follow-up to the Mediterranean Conference 2013)

The OSCE Permanent Council Decision No. PC.DEC/1127, containing the agenda and organizational modalities of the Conference is available at http://www.osce.org/node/121792.