For the third consecutive year, the Open Nuclear Network (ONN) attended the Winter Meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) in Vienna, engaging directly with parliamentarians from across the OSCE region on pressing security challenges.
We were pleased to participate alongside our Advisory Council Chair, Ambassador Kent Härstedt, former Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, and Advisory Council Member, Christine Muttonen, former President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Their longstanding leadership within the Assembly and deep understanding of parliamentary diplomacy significantly strengthened our engagement throughout the meeting.
In the current geopolitical climate, marked by heightened tensions and increasingly explicit nuclear signalling, we believe it is essential to ensure that nuclear risks remain firmly on the agenda of multilateral parliamentary forums such as the OSCE PA. Parliamentarians play an important role in shaping national security discourse and sustaining cross-border dialogue. Injecting evidence-based nuclear risk analysis into these forums is therefore both timely and necessary.
ONN also had the honour of attending the reception hosted at the Austrian Parliament on the occasion of the 25th Winter Meeting of the OSCE PA, at the invitation of the President of the Austrian National Council, Dr. Walter Rosenkranz. The reception provided an additional opportunity to engage informally with delegates and reinforce the importance of sustained dialogue on nuclear risk reduction.
We are grateful to OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella for the kind invitation. ONN remains committed to advancing practical pathways for reducing nuclear risks globally in an increasingly volatile security environment.
