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1421st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group, Ambassador Brice Roquefeuil, Ambassador Igor Khovaev, and Ambassador Andrew Schofer; Address by the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the Conflict Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk; Report by the Head of the High‑Level Planning Group, Colonel Claes Nilsson. (Armenia, Annex 1; Azerbaijan, Annex 2). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1419 on amending OSCE Financial Regulations. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1420 on forwarding of a draft agenda to the Ministerial Council. 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. Response by Belarus to the Vienna Mechanism (France, also on behalf of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Annex 3). Thematic report on the implications of the evolving situation in Afghanistan.

Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Grau. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Yaşar Halit Çevik. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1380 on the date and venue of the 2020 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1381 on the agenda, timetable and organizational modalities of the 2020 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Regarding the illegal checkpoints in the Security Zone, serious constraints on the free movement and human rights in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak (Moldova, Annex 1). Situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 2). Aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan and situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan, Annex 3). European and World Day against the Death Penalty, observed on 10 October 2020. Attacks on freedom of opinion and expression and on media freedom in Belarus. The case of Mr. Y. Dmitriev. Parliamentary elections in Liechtenstein, to be held on 7 February 2021.

These Comments were prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights following a request from the Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova.

Since its founding some 30 years ago, ODIHR’s mandate has centred on assisting participating States in fulfilling their human dimension commitments, including those of Roma and Sinti communities. The bedrock of these efforts has been the OSCE Action Plan on Enhancing the Situation of Roma and Sinti within the OSCE Region, which was adopted in 2003. This plan has served as the cornerstone for ODIHR’s guidance to States towards effective implementation of these commitments. Now, marking the 20th anniversary of the Action Plan, this Fourth Status Report takes comprehensive stock of the advances made over the past five years in realizing the Action Plan’s commitments.

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