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OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 17 March 2011

The Chairperson and several delegations extended condolences to Tunisia in connection with the terrorist attack on 18 March 2015 in Tunis. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova. Address by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. David Dondua. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1163 on the dates of the 2015 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. Crimea: one year after the illegal occupation and annexation by the Russian Federation. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Freedom of expression in the OSCE area. Situation in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh. The death penalty in the United States of America. Protection of children in the OSCE area. Racism, aggressive nationalism, radicalization and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.

Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. Mikheil Janelidze. Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ms. Astrid Thors. Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, and by the Director of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Dr. Pal Dunay. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Harassment and intimidation of the political opposition in the Russian Federation. International Children’s Day, observed on 1 June. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential elections in the United States of America, to be held on 8 November 2016.

The report assesses efforts made by Kosovo institutions to implement specific standards of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities from January 2008 to June 2009 in relevant thematic areas.

Annual report

Presentation of the 2012 Programme Outline by the Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. Report by Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Ambassador Andrew Tesoriere. Freedom of expression on the Internet in the OSCE area. The cases of Mr. M. Khodorkovskii and Mr. P. Lebedev in the Russian Federation. The rule of law in Sweden and the United States of America. Joint statement on Albania by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, and the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Štefan Füle, 25 May 2011. Public discourse related to European Muslim and Romani communities. Shooting Incident close to the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line.

2010 Annual Report on the implementation of OSCE Recruitment Policies, by the Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic. Permanent Council Decision No. 1000 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. Situation in Belarus. Closure of the Human Rights Watch office in Tashkent. The death penalty and consular access in the United States of America. Freedom of the media in Tajikistan. Draft law on parental responsibility in Tajikistan. Death of Ms. Jelena Bonner, founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, on 19 June 2011. Review of human dimension commitments in OSCE fora. Process of selecting the OSCE Secretary General (statement by the OSCE PA Special Representative, Ambassador Andreas Nothelle, annexed). Presidential and local elections to be held in Bulgaria on 23 October 2011 (statement by the Delegation of Bulgaria annexed).

Vienna, 23 June 2011