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July- September 2021

647th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the OSCE, Ambassador K. Zaldastanishvili, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatović. Permanent Council Decision No. 1084 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2013 Annual Security Review Conference (Ireland-European Union, interpretative statement, attachment 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2). Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Ambassador György Szabó. Recent protests in Turkey. Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Russian Federation. Media defamation suits and judicial integrity in Slovakia. Violation of the right to privacy by the United States of America. Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan.

Address by the Secretary General of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM, H.E. Valeri Chechelashvili. Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, Ambassador Ivo Petrov. 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. Meeting in the “5+2” negotiation format on the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict, held in Odessa, Ukraine, on 23 and 24 May 2013. Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in Georgia and in the United States of America. Installation of fences in the Tskhinvali region. Detention of former Minister of Culture Mr. G. Nurmuhammedov in Turkmenistan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (including Human Rights Youth Education on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination), held in Tirana on 21 and 22 May 2013 (Turkey, also on behalf of Norway and Switzerland, Annex 1; Albania, Annex 2).

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Romania to the OSCE, Ambassador C. Istrate, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Report by the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Dr. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro. Presentation of the 2014 Programme Outline by the Secretary General, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier. International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, celebrated on 17 May 2013. Freedom of the media in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Third trilateral summit meeting of the Presidents of Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, held in Ankara on 14 and 15 May 2013. Parliamentary elections in Norway, to be held on 9 September 2013. National Day for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in France, celebrated on 10 May 2013.