(texte en fran§ais ci-dessous)Dear Ambassador,We would like to call your attention to the nextOECD High-level Parliamentary Seminar,
which will take placeonMonday 17 and Tuesday 18 June 2013.
Thanks to the kind offer of the Swedish Parliament the seminarwill be held inStockholm.
As you are aware, in addition to our regular seminars in Paris, last year we started tohold an annual High-Level Parliamentary Seminar ‘on the road’ in a Member country, with the first of suchseminars held in Chile in March 2012.This High-Level Parliamentary Seminar on “FromEconomic Turbulence to Inclusive Growth: Lessons from
the Nordic Model?”
will be held at Swedish Parliament. It will offer an opportunity for parliamentarians toexchange views with their peers and OECD experts on a range of key issues, with, on the one hand, a specificfocus on inclusive growth and the Nordic model and, on the other hand, on how parliaments can learn fromexperts and independent sources. The Secretary-General as well as the Swedish Minister of Financial MarketsMr. Peter Norman are likely to speak at the seminar.Please find attached a draft programme, which is also available on the OECD website(www.oecd.org/parliamentarians).We would be very grateful if you could share this information with parliamentary representatives from yourcountry who might be interested in attending.Looking further ahead, the followingHigh-Level Parliamentary Seminar in Paris
will take placeon
Wednesday 2 October 2013.
Please note that this seminar will be held the day after theenlarged annual
debate
on the activities of the OECD of theCouncil of Europe Parliamentary Assembly,
which will be heldonOctober 1 in Strasbourg.
The two events will be held back-to-back to facilitate parliamentary participationin both. The programme of the seminar is currently under preparation. We will share more details closer to thedate.For more information on the OECD Parliamentary Network and for an updated list of OECD events withparliamentarians, please refer to (www.oecd.org/parliamentarians).If you have any queries your office may wish to contact Jennifer Bisping, Deputy Head of Public Affairs[[email protected]; Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 24 93 26] and Silvia Terrón [[email protected]; Tel: +33 (0) 145 24 95 72].Thank you in advance for your collaboration.