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75th anniversary of the end of World War II: Address by the Chair of the German Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Presentation of the 2021. Programme Outline by the Secretary General, Ambassador Thomas Greminger. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Europe Day, to be observed on 9 May 2020. World Press Freedom Day, observed on 3 May 2020 (Armenia, Annex 1; Romania, Annex 2; Bulgaria, Annex 3).

Working Session 10: Tolerance and Non-discrimination II (continued), Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 28 September 2009- 9 October 2009

1065th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

This report presents a general overview of the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (SMM), its main activities and latest news as of 8 April 2015.

Working Session 4: Rule of Law II, Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 28 September 2009- 9 October 2009

First Plenary Session, 17th OSCE Ministerial Council, Athens, 1-2 December 2009

Working Session 7: Tolerance and Non-discrimination II, Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 28 September 2009- 9 October 2009

This joint opinion on the Draft Law No. 3366 About Election to the Parliament of Ukraine (“draft law”) is provided by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”) upon a request from the Ukrainian Parliament Committee on State Building and Local Self-Governance. This joint opinion comments on the most recent version of the draft law (CDL(2009)084). Earlier opinions of the OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission, as well as numerous election reports from previous OSCE/ODIHR and Council of Europe observation missions in Ukraine, provide excellent background for understanding the historical development of the election legislation in Ukraine. This draft law continues to incorporate recommendations for improvement. The most significant change is the introduction of a new electoral system. The system proposed in the draft law provides for 450 parliamentarians to be elected under a form of proportional representation that uses territorial election districts, including a foreign territorial election district where ballots are cast by out of country voters. Under the proposed system, most members of parliament will be elected from national lists, with the mathematical possibility for individual political party candidates to be elected within an in-country territorial election district from a territorial list.