On 17 October the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), OSCE Mission to Skopje, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will organize a regional conference in Skopje, under the auspices of the OSCE Chairpersonship of North Macedonia focused on ending statelessness in South-Eastern Europe.

The conference will bring together national authorities and civil society representatives from North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. They will exchange best practices in accessing civil documentation and providing legal identity, including birth registration, to end statelessness.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office Bujar Osmani, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR Gillian Triggs, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Director Matteo Mecacci of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, and the Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje Kilian Wahl will address the conference.

Media are invited to cover the press statements and the opening session, to be held at Limak Hotel, Jordan Mijalkov No. 31, 1000, Skopje, on Tuesday, 17 October 2023, starting at 9:15 am CEST.