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April 2018 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the April 2018 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1183rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. 32nd anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Belarus, Annex). Recent developments in Armenia. Human rights violations and abuses against LGBTI persons in Chechnya. Response by Sweden to a statement made by the Russian Federation on the ODIHR’s election observation methodology at the 1182nd meeting of the Permanent Council held on 19 April 2018. Recent developments in the Transdniestrian settlement process in Moldova. Early presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in Turkey on 24 June 2018. Launching of an informal Group of Friends on the Safety of Journalists. OSCE Regional Ministerial Conference on “Good Governance and Economic Connectivity – best practices within the OSCE region”, to be held in Ashgabat on 30 and 31 May 2018.
Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Bruce G. Berton. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Discrimination in sport. The ODIHR’s election observation methodology. Freedom of expression in the Russian Federation. Early presidential election in Azerbaijan, held on 11 April 2018. Constitutional policing in the United States of America. Presidential election in Montenegro, held on 15 April 2018. Early parliamentary elections in Slovenia, to be held on 3 June 2018.
Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. David Dondua. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Mr. John MacGregor. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Desecration of monuments in Poland. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Violations of the rights of human rights defenders in the Russian Federation. Enforced disappearances in Turkmenistan. Human rights and the rule of law in Turkey. International Roma Day, observed on 8 April 2018. Police brutality in Kosovska Mitrovica and the illegal detention of Mr. M. Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of the Republic of Serbia. Concerns about freedom of expression and the detention of Mr. K. Mirsaidov in Tajikistan. Farewell to the Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OSCE, Mr. B. Güldere. Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan, held on 25 March 2018. Midterm elections in the United States of America, culminating on 6 November 2018. General election in Sweden, to be held on 9 September 2018. Nerve agent attack in Salisbury, United Kingdom (United Kingdom, Annex 1; Estonia, Annex 2).