The parliament of Estonia will host the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's spring session in Tallinn from May 25 to 28, 2012.

The session will bring together some 300 parliamentarians from the 28 NATO member countries from North America and Europe as well as delegates from partner countries and observers to discuss common international security concerns and adopt the reports prepared by the Assembly’s committees.

May 26 and 27 will be devoted to the meetings of the NATO PA’s five committees: Political, Defense and Security, Science and Technology, Civil Dimension of Security and Economics and Security.

Each committee will discuss reports on a broad range of security and defense topics and will be addressed by prestigious speakers from government, academia, NGO’s and NATO. The Plenary Session on May 28 will be addressed by: NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s President, Dr Karl A. Lamers, the Speaker of the Riigikogu, Ene Ergma, the President of the Republic of Estonian, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow and other prestigious speakers.