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1191st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

The two-year project “Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime” implemented by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) starting from February 2017 aimed to advance the skills of, and collaboration among, criminal justice professionals within each of four OSCE countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Poland – and to improve their co-operation with civil society, to contribute to the building of a comprehensive criminal justice response to hate crime in each of these countries.

1197th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, to the ceremony on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the appointment of the first OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, The Hague, the Netherlands, 9 November 2018.

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson welcomed the new Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the OSCE, Monsignor J. Urbańczyk. The Permanent Representative of the Holy See delivered a statement to mark the assumption of his post. Address by the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of Belgium, H.E. Didier Reynders. Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Mr. Michael Georg Link. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1160 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Latvia-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1161 on the extension of the terms of reference of the Audit Committee. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1162 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (United States of America, interpretative statement 1; Canada, interpretative statement 2; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 3; Ukraine, interpretative statement 4; Latvia-European Union, interpretative statement 5). 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. International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March 2015. Freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly in Tajikistan. Death penalty in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.

1182nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1196th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1196th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1194th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

High-Level Event Climate, Peace and Security: Time for Action, Brussels, 22 June 2018.