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January 2021 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the January 2021 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1300th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Address by the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on the occasion of the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the right to peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE area (Netherlands, Annex 1; Belgium, Annex 2; Germany, Annex 3; France, Annex 4; Switzerland, Annex 5). Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, to be held on 4 April 2021. European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case concerning the armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008 and its consequences. International Day of Education, observed on 24 January 2021.
Inaugural remarks by the new OSCE Secretary General, H.E. Ms. Helga Schmid. Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, H.E. Lord Peter Bowness. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1400 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Portugal-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; United Kingdom, interpretative statement 3; Canada, interpretative statement 4; United States of America, interpretative statement 5; Ukraine, interpretative statement 6). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 1). Censorship of digital information in the United States of America. Detention of opposition politician Mr. A. Navalny in the Russian Federation. Visit of the Chairperson-in-Office to Ukraine on 19 and 20 January 2021 (Russian Federation, Annex 2). Presidential election and referendum in Kyrgyzstan, held on 10 January 2021. Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, held on 10 January 2021. Parliamentary elections in Cyprus, to be held on 30 May 2021. Address by the President of Uzbekistan to the Oliy Majlis (Parliament) on 29 December 2020.
1298th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Address by the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, H.E. Ms. Ann Linde (Armenia, Annex 1; United States of America, Annex 2).