The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) has fully approved the decision to hold the summer session of 2017 in Minsk, a statement posted on the website of the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly said.

"At the meeting of the Standing Committee the decision to hold the next, 26th, annual OSCE PA session in Minsk on July 5-9, 2017, has been adopted by a solid vote," the statement said.

The work of current, 25th, session started in Tbilisi on July 1.

The House of Representatives said that this April the PA Bureau in Copenhagen approved the decision to hold its 2017 annual session in Minsk. The advance group of the OSCE PA International Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General Gustavo Pallares paid a visit to Minsk in May of 2016, and after familiarizing itself with the conditions on the site "highly appraised the capabilities of the Republic of Belarus in hosting the session," the chamber of parliament said.

OSCE PA summer sessions are held annually in July in the capitals of OSCE member countries.