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948th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
The Chairperson, the Russian Federation, Ireland-European Union, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the Holy See, Kazakhstan, Canada, Israel (Partner for Co-operation), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Algeria (Partner for Co-operation), Jordan (Partner for Co-operation), Afghanistan (Partner for Co-operation) and Uzbekistan extended condolences to the United States of America in connection with the bombing at the Boston Marathon. The United States of America thanked the Permanent Council for its expression of sympathy. Address by the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna, H.E. Yury Fedotov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush. Permanent Council Decision No. 1079 on the dates of the 2013 Annual Security Review Conference. Closure of the Free Thought University in Azerbaijan. Suspension by the International Committee of the Red Cross of its visits to places of detention in Uzbekistan. Rights of children in the OSCE area. Situation at the Guantánamo detention facility. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential elections in Mongolia, to be held on 26 June 2013 (Mongolia, Annex). Decision by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bureau to reactivate the 1997 Co-operation Agreement between the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.