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This report presents the main findings of the monitoring of public assemblies undertaken by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in selected OSCE participating States between September 2019 and November 2021.

Agenda of the meeting

These Financial Statements have been audited by the External Auditor appointed by the Permanent Council (PC), the Cour des Comptes of France, who expressed an unmodified (unqualified) opinion that they present a fair view of the OSCE’s finances in 2022. They are now final and have been circulated to the Advisory Committee on Management and Finance (ACMF) and the External Auditor has presented his main findings to the Committee and to the PC. However, the PC has been unable to date to find consensus on acceptance of the Financial Statements

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 (Sweden, Annex 1). 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. Briefing on the process for the resolution of the issue of the scales of contributions for 2018 and 2019 (France, Annex 2). Presidential election in Montenegro, held on 15 April 2018. Early parliamentary elections in Slovenia, to be held on 3 June 2018.

Closing remarks at the 2005 HDIM.

1422nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Annual report

Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, H.E. Ms. Elina Valtonen. The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Report by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Michel Tarran. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1486 on the appointment of the External Auditor (Hungary, also on behalf of Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, interpretative statement 1; Canada, interpretative statement 2). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1487 on the 2024 additional provisional expenditure authorization for the Conference and Language Services programme (Hungary, also on behalf of Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, interpretative statement 1; Canada, interpretative statement 2; Azerbaijan, interpretative statement 3; Armenia, interpretative statement 4). Sixteen years have elapsed since the full-scale military aggression against Georgia by the Russian Federation. On the increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine.