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Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Maryse Daviet. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The situation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation. Human rights situation in Turkey. Five years since the reunification of Crimea with the Russian Federation. Five years of illegal occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation. Violation of religious rights and persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Parliamentary elections and post-electoral perspectives in Moldova. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the OSCE, Ambassador S. MacLeod. Federal and regional elections in Belgium, to be held on 26 May 2019.

Situation in and around Ukraine (Ukraine, Annex 1; Russian Federation, Annex 2).

1432nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

928th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Security Dialogue: “Mil-to-Mil Contacts on Doctrines”: – Presentation by Brigadier General N. Gentile, Deputy Director for Partnering, Security Cooperation and Weapons of Mass Destruction, United States European Command; – Presentation by Colonel (General Staff) M. Ghilardi, Head of Military Doctrine, Swiss Armed Forces; – Presentation by Colonel M. Bastin, Motorized Capabilities programme, Belgian Armed Forces; seconded to the French Army Staff (Austria, Annex 1). Situation in and around Ukraine. Update on the Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control in accordance with Article IV of Annex 1-B to the Dayton Peace Agreement (Montenegro, also on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, Annex 2). Request for assistance in the management of small arms and light weapons and stockpiles of conventional ammunition in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan, Annex 3).

Report by the Chief Observer of the OSCE Observer Mission at two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border, Mr. Simon Eugster. 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. International Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December 2015. Freedom of the media in the OSCE area. Release of human rights activist Ms. L. Yunusova in Azerbaijan. The death penalty in the United States of America and abolition of the death penalty in Mongolia. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.

1175th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address 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. Racism and police violence in the United States of America. Recent sentencing of human rights defenders in Turkey. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Extension of the appointments of the Secretary General and of three heads of institution (Azerbaijan, Annex). Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, to be held on 4 October 2020. The United Kingdom’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020.

Situation in and around Ukraine (Ukraine, Annex 1; Russian Federation, Annex 2). Financial contribution to the project on strengthening the capacity of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for the removal of unexploded ordnance in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk (Luxembourg, Annex 3). Food-for-thought paper on the substantial modernization of the Vienna Document and a way ahead for CSBMs (FSC.DEL/219/15 Restr.) (Germany, Annex 4).