March 2018 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1289 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (Canada, interpretative statement 1; to the decision; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Bulgaria-European Union, interpretative statement 3; France, interpretative statement 4; United States of America, interpretative statement 5; Ukraine, interpretative statement 6). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1290 on the dates of the 2018 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Obstacles to the conducting of the Russian presidential election in the Russian Federation’s diplomatic institutions in Ukraine. Non-recognition of the illegal Russian election in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine. Violations of children’s rights in the United Kingdom. Glorification of Nazism in Latvia. Uncorrected violations of international law and OSCE principles in connection with the 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Presidential election in the Russian Federation, held on 18 March 2018. Inclusion of two organizations in the list of so-called “undesirable organizations” in the Russian Federation. Ensuring constitutional policing in the United States of America. Presidential election in the Russian Federation, held on 18 March 2018.