962nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

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.