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Commissioned by the Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media along with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Prepared by: Antonina Cherevko; Dr Paolo Cavaliere; Prof Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou; and Alice Thomas

987th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

This legal analysis was commissioned by the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media along with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Before taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Mongolia remembered the 298 victims of the tragic crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which occurred on 17 July 2014. The Netherlands thanked the Chairperson and the participating States for commemorating that tragedy and for their expression of condolences. Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ms. Astrid Thors. Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1175 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2015 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. 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. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian Federation. Commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide on 11 July 2015 (San Marino, Annex). Thirty-second round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 1 July 2015. Erection of so-called “State border” signs in Georgia near the Baku-Supsa pipeline. Political agreement in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Human rights concerns in Tajikistan. Russian law on so-called “undesirable” non-governmental organizations. The death penalty in the United States of America. Freedom of the media and pluralism in the OSCE area. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, to be held on 1 November 2015.

OSCE Second Conference on Anti-Semitism, Berlin 28-29 April 2004

Recent constitutional changes in Hungary. Continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus. Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, held on 15 January 2012. Recent incident in the security zone of the Transdniestrian conflict. Military exercises by the Russian Federation in the Southern Caucasus. Ukraine’s Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2013. Ratification by the Mongolian Parliament of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential elections in France, to be held on 22 April and 6 May 2012.