MEDIA Advisory 10 October 2006

NATO PA 52nd ANNUAL SESSION TO BE HELD IN Québec City, Canada 11-17 November 2006

Québec City will host the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Annual session, bringing together some 340 parliamentarians from North America and Europe, from 13-17 November 2006

The plenary session on Friday 17 will be addressed by a distinguished group of guest speakers from the Canadian government including the Canadian Minister of National Defence, Gordon O'Connor The session will be marked by a live satellite video link-up with the NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

NATO PA's five committees (Political, Defence and Security, Science and Technology, Civil Dimension of Security, Economics and Security) will meet on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 and be addressed by guest speakers

The NATO PA Session will address the major issues on the NATO agenda, notably its current operations—including Afghanistan—the challenges of enlargement, relations with partner countries, and the Alliance transformation, which is necessary to be able to address today’s new security challenges Indeed, NATO's ability to deal with these challenges will also depend upon the support of Alliance publics and parliaments For this reason, the November meetings in Québec City will be an important prelude to the Riga Summit of NATO Heads of State and Government, to take place on 28-29 November

The Assembly provides a forum in which parliamentarians from the 26 NATO countries, 13 associate delegations from Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Russia, 4 Mediterranean Associate delegations from Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Israel and several Parliamentary Observer delegations meet together regularly in order to exchange views on key concerns and problems and to provide an indication of parliamentary and public opinion towards Alliance policies

PROGRAMME FOR THE PRESS (under construction)

PRESS CONFERENCES The NATO PA President's, Pierre LELLOUCHE, press conferences will take place in hall 205 C, at the Québec City Convention centre on Monday 13 November at 11:00 and on Friday 17 November after the Opening of the Plenary Session

INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA http://www natopa-apotan ca/Docs_PressMedia-e asp

MEDIA ACCREDITATION Request for accreditation form http://www natopa-apotan ca/Form_Accreditation-e asp Media representatives in Canada or abroad who wish to cover the Session meetings should complete the "request for accreditation" form (http://www natopa-apotan ca/Docs_PressMedia-e asp) and send it to the address below For all information concerning accreditation or services available to the media also please contact:

CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY PRESS GALLERY Terry Guillon Chief of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery and Media Co-ordinator House of Commons Room 350-N, Centre Block Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Tel: (613) 992-4511 Fax: (613) 947-2007 E-Mail: guillt@parl gc ca

FOR SPECIFIC QUESTIONS REGARDING NATO PA PLEASE CONTACT

NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL SECRÉTARIAT Andrea Cellino, Deputy to the Secretary general for Partnerships and External Relations Roberta Calorio, co-ordinator Phone : + 32(0)2 50 48 154 Fax : + 32 2513 59 23 e-mail : press@nato-pa int Place du Petit Sablon 3, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Switchboard: + 32 (0) 2 513 59 23 website: http:// www nato-pa int

News and information is routinely places on the NATO PA website Check the ‘Latest News’ File

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