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Opening plenary session, High-Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, Bucharest, 7 and 8 June 2007

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec. Address by the President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Mr. Emmanuel Decaux. Presentation by the Chairperson of the Security Committee. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Six years of illegal occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation. Large scale cyberattack against Georgia. Fifth anniversary of the assassination of Mr. B. Nemtsov and other ongoing human rights violations in the Russian Federation. The re-arrest of Mr. O. Kavala in Turkey. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Georgia to the OSCE, Ambassador D. Dondua. Two years since the murder of Mr. J. Kuciak and his fiancée. Publication of a report on human rights by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, to be held on 12 April 2020. Presidential election in Poland, to be held on 10 May 2020.

Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, H.E. Ms. Margareta Cederfelt. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Michael Davenport (Belgium, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Cyprus, Annex 2; Spain, Annex 3; Serbia, Annex 4). Update on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian checkpoints of Gukovo and Donetsk (Chairperson, Annex 5; United Kingdom, Annex 6; Slovenia-European Union, Annex 7; Canada, Annex 8; Ukraine, Annex 9; Turkey, Annex 10; France, also on behalf of Germany, Annex 11; Georgia, Annex 12; Russian Federation, Annex 13). 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. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 14). Recent developments in Belarus. Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, and illegal detentions of Crimean Tatars. Thirty years since the Baltic States joined the OSCE (Latvia, also on behalf of Estonia and Lithuania, Annex 15).

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.

Background report prepared at the request of ODIHR by Vasili Kukharchyk and Maryana Kulya, April 2008

Second Plenary Session, 15th OSCE Ministerial Council, Madrid, 29 and 30 November 2007