Brussels, 26/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the council of EUROPE and the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Independent States will be organising on 27-28 March in Saint Petersburg, a conference on the war on terrorism. The conference will be opened by Vladimir Putin, Peter Scheider, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Pan-European Organisation, Vice-president of the European Parliament, Renzo Imbeni, President of the Federation Council, Sergui Mironov, President of the Duma, Gennadiy Selezneve and the President of the OSCE, Adrian Severin. It will also be looking at the strengthening of respect for human rights, preventive measures for protecting high-risk installations, the war on terrorist funding, as well as joint Russian and NATO interests in the war against terrorism.