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Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu (Latvia, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Cyprus, Annex 2; Spain, Annex 3). 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 Yaşar Halit Çevik. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1344 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Finland-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Ukraine, interpretative statement 2; United States of America, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1345 on supplementing the OSCE IT Infrastructure Upgrade Fund (Armenia, interpretative statement). Russian violations of the right to peaceful assembly and its election-related commitments. Recent developments on Georgia’s occupied territories. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed on 30 August 2019. The death penalty in Belarus and in the United States of America. Violation of human rights of the indigenous population in Canada. Parliamentary election in Belarus, to be held on 17 November 2019. First Caspian Economic Forum, held in Avaza, Turkmenistan, on 12 August 2019 (Azerbaijan, Annex 4). Parliamentary election in Portugal, to be held on 6 October 2019. Parliamentary election in Poland, to be held on 13 October 2019.

This report provides a summary of an expert meeting on civil society measures to address intolerance, discrimination and hate crime, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Geneva on 22 and 23 October 2019.

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer. Recent developments regarding Belarus. Presidential elections in Kazakhstan. Situation in Egypt. Strategy 31 demonstrations in the Russian Federation. Freedom of the media in the Member States of the European Union. Annual State of the Nation Address by the President of Kazakhstan, delivered on 28 January 2011. Survey of legal provisions and practices related to freedom of expression, free flow of information and media pluralism on the Internet in OSCE participating States.

1102nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Minutes of the proceedings

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Romania to the OSCE, Ambassador C. Istrate, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Report by the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Dr. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro. Presentation of the 2014 Programme Outline by the Secretary General, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier. International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, celebrated on 17 May 2013. Freedom of the media in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Third trilateral summit meeting of the Presidents of Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, held in Ankara on 14 and 15 May 2013. Parliamentary elections in Norway, to be held on 9 September 2013. National Day for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in France, celebrated on 10 May 2013.

Address by the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, H.E. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatovic. Permanent Council Decision No. 1053 on the timetable and organizational modalities of the nineteenth meeting of the Ministerial Council (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Kyrgyzstan, also on behalf of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey, attached). Permanent Council Decision No. 1054 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. Permanent Council Decision No. 1055 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Baku. Permanent Council Decision No. 1056 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Presence in Albania. Permanent Council Decision No. 1057 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro. Permanent Council Decision No. 1058 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. Permanent Council Decision No. 1059 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek. Permanent Council Decision No. 1060 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Permanent Council Decision No. 1061 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Permanent Council Decision No. 1062 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The case of Mr. A. Byalyatski. New legislation on domestic non-governmental organizations in the Russian Federation. International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed on 25 November 2012, and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.

1079th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This publication provides information on when, where and how OSCE participating States promote the commemoration and study of the Holocaust, including the genocide of Roma and Sinti, in line with their OSCE commitments. The information was gathered through an online questionnaire that ODIHR disseminated to all participating States.