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Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Koray Targay. Financial report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012 and the Report of the External Auditor. Annual Report of the Audit Committee. Permanent Council Decision No. 1085 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2013 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Twenty-fourth round of the Geneva International Discussions, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 25 and 26 June 2013. Presidential elections in Mongolia, held on 26 June 2013. Suspension order imposed on the non-governmental organization Golos in the Russian Federation. Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Russian Federation. Xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. The Voting Rights Act in the United States of America. Report on the activites of the Chairperson-in-Office.

958th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Addresses by the Federal Councillor, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, H.E. Didier Burkhalter; and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, H.E. Ivan Mrkić.

Address by the Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, Ms. Janet Napolitano. Announcement on the outcome of the silence procedure on the Ministerial Council Decision on the appointment of the OSCE Secretary General (letter by the Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Mr. Audronius Ažubalis, annexed). Ministerial Council Decision No. 2/11 on the appointment of the OSCE Secretary General, Mr. Lamberto Zannier (annexed).

955th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This report assesses the progress made by municipalities in Kosovo towards realizing the right to adequate housing through the provision of social housing and identifies some of the main shortcomings in their efforts.

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, expressed condolences to Romania in connection with a bus crash that had occurred in Montenegro, on 23 June 2013. Address by the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, H.E. Sergey Lebedev. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Ralf Breth (Greece, Annex 1; the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Annex 2). 2012 Annual Report by the Secretary General on the implementation of OSCE recruitment policies. Parliamentary elections in Albania, held on 23 June 2013. Forcible eviction of non-governmental organization “For Human Rights” in Moscow. The death penalty in Belarus. Recent adoption by the Transdniestrian side of the so-called “legal act on the border”. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Fifth World Congress against the Death Penalty, held in Madrid, from 12 to 15 June 2013 (Spain, also on behalf of France, Norway and Switzerland, Annex 3).

Legal review of the Decree (#456) of the President of the Republic of Belarus “On introduction of amendments and changes to some Decrees of the President of the Republic of Belarus” of 7 October 2013

Commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from Boyko Boev, Senior Legal Officer, ARTICLE 19 Global Campaign For Free Expression.