Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Council, offered condolences to Spain in connection with the train crash that took place near Santiago de Compostela on 24 July 2013. Report on Progress made under the Helsinki+40 Process. Permanent Council Decision No. 1088 on the theme, agenda and modalities for the Twenty-Second Economic and Environmental Forum. Permanent Council Decision No. 1089 on the Financial Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2012 and the Report of the External Auditor. The cases of Mr. S. Magnitsky, Mr. A. Navalny and Mr. P. Ofitserov in the Russian Federation. Recent developments in Belarus. Situation of Roma in the OSCE area. Response to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. Extradition from Lithuania of Mr. D. Ustinov. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Planned visit to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Conference on Mediation in the OSCE Area, held in Bucharest on 15 and 16 July 2013.

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson informed the Permanent Council that the Chairperson-in-Office, in a letter (Annex 1) issued on 17 July 2013, had announced the adoption through a silence procedure of Ministerial Council Decision No. 2/13 on the appointment of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the text of which is appended to this journal. Address by the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Mr. Dmitry Mezentsev. Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin. Permanent Council Decision No. 1087 on the dates and agenda of the 2013 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Needs Assessment Mission Report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, to be held in October 2013 (ODIHR.GAL/51/13). Release of former Minister of Culture Mr. G. Nurmuhammedov in Turkmenistan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Activities for the promotion of tolerance and non-discrimination in Andorra. Erection of a monument in Berlin to the victims of Nazi euthanasia programmes (Germany, Annex 2). (

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