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Address by the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Dr. Michele Galizia. Presentations by the Chairpersons of the Security Committee; the Economic and Environmental Committee; and the Human Dimension Committee. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Media legislation in Moldova. Recent developments in the occupied territories of Georgia. Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Human rights violations concerning the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Russian Federation. Human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.

1424th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1428th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, H.E. Daniel Mitov. Address by the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council, Mr. Goran Svilanović. Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. 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. Local elections in Ukraine on 25 October 2015. Situation in Montenegro. Violation by the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of its mandate. Statement by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

1428th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

April- June 2023

Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, H.E. George Tsereteli. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1286 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Bulgaria-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Turkey ordering the release of Mr. M. Altan and Mr. A. Alpay. The death penalty in Belarus. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the OSCE, Ambassador K. Ilioski. Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan, to be held on 25 March 2018. Presidential elections in Montenegro, to be held on 15 April 2018.

1114th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

789th Special Meeting of the Permanent Council

The 7-8 December 2020 online meeting was organized by ODIHR with the aim of supporting OSCE participating States to meet OSCE commitments on human rights, in particular the human rights of migrant children. The event brought together 40 participants (31 women and 9 men), including experts and representatives from national authorities, human rights bodies, international organizations and civil society from 10 OSCE participating States (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) and Japan.