Statement by the Maltese EU Presidency on the 39th round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 28 and 29 March 2017

Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Mr. Michael Georg Link. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1247 on the establishment of the OSCE Information Security Enhancement Fund. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1248 on the agenda, timetable and organizational modalities of the 2017 OSCE Asian Conference. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1249 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Maltese EU Presidency, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4). Thirty-ninth round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 28 and 29 March 2017. International Roma Day, to be observed on 8 April 2017. Parliamentary elections in Armenia, held on 2 April 2017. Proposed legislation affecting foreign educational institutions in Hungary. Reports of arrests and murders of homosexual men by the Chechen authorities. Closure of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in the Russian Federation.