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1234th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Minutes of the proceedings

Ambassador Marianne von Grünigen of Switzerland covered the negotiations of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) on the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and its aftermath from 1989 to 1993. She was the first female Swiss diplomat to head the Swiss delegation to the CSCE. In this interview, concluded as a part of the project of the OSCE Documentation Centre in Prague, Ambassador von Grünigen reflects on the significance of the CSCE process that began with the signed at the Summit Meeting on August 1st, 1975, the negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act drafting of the 1990 Paris Charter and its legacy for the present day. She spoke with Ida Manton, alumna of the OSCE Researcher-in-Residence programme and an expert supporting the implementation of Living Memories Project.

This Report highlights last year’s (2017) achievements as well as areas for further work in mainstreaming gender perspectives into the Organization’s policies, programmes and activities.

Agenda of the meeting

This Opinion was prepared in response to a request from the Chairperson of the Judicial General Council of Mongolia received by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in September 2019.

Decision No. 926 on the establishment of the OSCE Network Operating System Fund. Freedom of the media in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Situation regarding the media in Belarus. Presentation of the 2008-2009 Annual Report of the Audit Committee.

Presentation of priorities of the incoming Chairmanship 2023 – North Macedonia. The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Ongoing crimes by Ukraine against the civilian population with the support of a Western alliance of OSCE participating States. Failure of the Polish Chairmanship-in-Office to organize the work in the OSCE human dimension. Ongoing gross violations of the rights of the Russian and Russian-speaking population by some Western OSCE participating States. Second anniversary of the fraudulent presidential election in Belarus. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed on 30 August 2022. Violations by Azerbaijan of the provisions of the 9 November 2020 Trilateral Statement. Latest developments of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija. Fourteen years since the full-scale military aggression against Georgia by the Russian Federation.

July- September 2022