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1021st Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Security Dialogue: Global Developments in the Area of Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition: – Presentation by Ms. M. Messmer Mokhtar, Head of the Humanitarian Policy Section, Human Security Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; – Presentation by Ms. K. Prizeman, Conventional Arms Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA); – Presentation by Mr. M. Bleinroth, Director of the Division on Conventional Disarmament and CSBM, Preventive Arms Control, German Federal Foreign Office; – Presentation by Ambassador S. Toscano, Director of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD). The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 1/19 on the change of date for the Global Exchange of Military Information for 2019. Request for assistance and financial contributions for a mélange project in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan, Annex 1). Situation in and around Ukraine. Appointment of a new Chairperson of the Informal Group of Friends on Small Arms and Light Weapons (Chairperson of the Informal Group of Friends on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Latvia, Annex 2). Symposium on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, held in Berlin on 22 and 23 November 2018 (FSC Co-ordinator for the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, Romania, Annex 3).

Security Dialogue: UNSC Resolution 1540 with its Follow-ups 1977 (2011) And 2325 (2016): Exchange of National Export Control Experience and Best Practices of the OSCE Participating States: – Presentation by Mr. G. Mashkov, Principal Counsellor of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; – Presentation by Mr. T. Taylor, Co-ordinator of the Group of Experts, UNSCR 1540 Committee; – Presentation by Mr. V. Mantels, Head of the UNSCR 1540 Support Team, UNODA. Situation in and around Ukraine.

Annual exchange of military information. Presentation by representatives of the Conflict Prevention Centre and Mr. O. Prokopenko on the final report of Phase III-A of the Melange Project in Ukraine.

Security Dialogue: “Impact of Scientific and Technological Progress on Security and Arms Control”: – Ambassador F. Grütter, Head of the Division for Security Policy, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland; – Ambassador P. Griffiths, Head of Secretariat, Wassenaar Arrangement. Briefing on the military exercise “Heidesturm 2017”, being conducted in Germany from 19 May to 9 June 2017. Situation in and around Ukraine. Decision by the Council of the European Union, adopted on 11 May 2017, in support of the implementation of UNSCR 1540.

Private Military And Security Companies (PMSCs): – Presentation by Assistant State Secretary Ms. N. Olivieri Lozano, Head of the Swiss FDFA Division for Security Policy; – Presentation by Mr. C. T. Mayer, Director, Armed Contingency Contractor Policies and Programs, United States Department of Defense; – Presentation by Ms. J. Aparac, UN OHCHR, Working Group on the use of mercenaries; – Presentation by Mr. S. Andjelkovic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of International Politics and Security, Belgrade, and private security consultant. Situation in and around Ukraine.

1375th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group. Report by the Personal Representative of the OSCE 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 Markus Widmer. Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, and by the Director of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Mr. Maxim Ryabkov. 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. Law on “foreign agents” in the Russian Federation. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Report by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights on the human rights situation of detainees at Guantánamo.

Report by the Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, on the implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the promotion of gender equality. Situation in Kyrgyzstan. Freedom of the media in Ukraine.