Statement by the Estonian EU Presidency in response to the update on OSCE Migration-Related Activities by the OSCE Secretary General and to the report by the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, Mr. Filippo Lombardi

Report by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Bernd Borchardt. Update on OSCE Migration-Related Activities. Report by the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, Mr. Filippo Lombardi. Report by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Ambassador Vuk Žugić. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1272 on amending OSCE Financial Regulations. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Glorification of Nazism. The verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the case of Mr. Ratko Mladić. National Dignity and Freedom Day, observed in Ukraine on 21 November 2017. International Conference on Security and Sustainable Development in Central Asia under the auspices of the United Nations “Central Asia: Shared Past and Common Future, Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Mutual Prosperity”, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 10 and 11 November 2017. Resolution marking the twentieth anniversary in 2018 of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.