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April- June 2023

Outcome report of the expert meeting on International Law and Policy on Disinformation in the context of Freedom of the Media, organized on 14 May, 2021.

2003 update on situation and responses to trafficking in human beings

Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Mr. Matteo Mecacci (Russian Federation, Annex 1; Turkey, Annex 2; Holy See, Annex 3; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Annex 4). Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. Mr. Lasha Darsalia. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Deteriorating situation in Ukraine and continued non-implementation by the Ukrainian authorities of the Minsk agreements. The aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 5). Violations of freedom of assembly in some Western European States and in the United States of America (Germany, Annex 6; Netherlands, Annex 7; Belgium, Annex 8; Austria, Annex 9; France, Annex 10; Switzerland, Annex 11). International Roma Day, observed on 8 April 2021. Recent developments in Belarus. Abolition of the death penalty in the state of Virginia, United States of America. Statement by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group issued on 13 April 2021. Illegal restriction on the freedom of navigation imposed by the Russian Federation in the Black Sea. Sixtieth anniversary of the first human space flight, observed on 12 April 2021. Lethal attack on Giorgos Karaivaz and media freedom and the safety of journalists as a Greek priority (Greece, Annex 13).

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the OSCE, Ambassador Kairat Sarybay, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, H.E. António Guterres. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova. Situation in Ukraine. Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Amendments to the Internet Law in Turkey. Freedom of the media in the Russian Federation. Human rights in places of detention in the United States of America. NGO legislation in Azerbaijan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Signing of the State Border Treaty and the Maritime Border Treaty between Estonia and the Russian Federation. Report by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Belarus on the Most Resonant Human Rights Violations in Certain Countries 2013.

Report by the OSCE Mission to Croatia on the second round of the Croatian Presidential elections in January 2004

Proceedings of the Max van der Stoel Award ceremony of 2024.

Address by the Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Ambassador Çinar Aldemir. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Gary D. Robbins. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Ambassador Istvan Venczel. Permanent Council Decision No. 997 on participatory workshops on environment and security issues in the southern Mediterranean region. Permanent Council Decision No. 998 on a side event to the 2011 OSCE-Mongolia Conference on “Afghanistan Capacity Building: Strengthening the Diplomatic Service.”