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Background Paper of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship on the First Preparatory Meeting of the 22nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum “Responding to environmental challenges with a view to promoting cooperation and security in the OSCE area”, Vienna, 27- 28 January 2014.

Financial contribution to the project on the destruction of mélange in Bulgaria (Hungary, Annex 1). Closing statement by the Chairperson of the Forum for Security Co-operation, H.E. Ambassador Maria-Pia Kothbauer (Switzerland, Annex 2).

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Agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (including Human Rights Youth Education on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination) (Ireland-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 3)

Appointment of the External Auditor

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE, Ambassador Vittorio Rocco di Torrepadula. Report by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek. Decision No. 1086 on the recommendation to appoint the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Response to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. Responses to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on demonstrations against same-sex marriage in the OSCE area. Eighteenth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fortieth anniversary of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, marked on 7 July 2013. Safety of journalists in the OSCE area. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.

Presentations by Ms. Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, Chief of Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Ambassador Adam Kobieracki, Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre, on outputs of the OSCE Workshop to Identify the Proper Role of the OSCE in Facilitation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), Ambassador Branka Latinovic, Director of the Directorate for Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Marko Milivojevic, Criminal Police Department, Forensic Division, Ministry of the Interior of Serbia, on CBRN governance, and Mr. Vasily Pavlov, Senior Counsellor, Department of International Security and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, on efforts to tackle the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the UNSCR 1540 context. Forum for Security Co-operation Decision No. 5/11 on the Reference Guide on the Questionnaire on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Poland, also on behalf of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the Czech Republic, attached).

714th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

714th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation