Report by OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, following her official visit to the Czech Republic, 26-27 November 2015 and 21 January 2016

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Second Preliminary Joint Opinion on the Electoral Code of Armenia

Publishing date: 21 July 2016

Collections: Election-related Legal Opinions and Comments

Content type: Report

Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

What we do: Democratization, Elections

Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

At its 107th Plenary Session, on 10-11 June 2016, the Venice Commission endorsed the Joint Opinion with the OSCE/ODIHR on the draft electoral code of Armenia as of 18 April 2016. At this Plenary Session, the Minister of Justice informed the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR that additional amendments, including changes that addressed recommendations made in the first Joint Opinion, could be submitted to parliament at an extraordinary session before the end of June 2016. The Minister therefore invited the rapporteurs to hold a working meeting with the Armenian authorities in order to discuss possible additional improvements to the code. The Minister also requested another joint opinion on the final version of the amended Electoral Code, particularly in light of the extent to which these new amendments addressed the recommendations presented in the first Joint Opinion. The Minister asked that this opinion be again transmitted and made public in preliminary form during the month of July. The Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR granted this request. The Minister confirmed this request in a letter sent on 2 July 2016.

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Status Report as of 20 July 2016

Publishing date: 21 July 2016

Collections: Status Reports of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

Content type: Report

Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)

What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution

Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

This report presents a general overview of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), its main activities and latest news as of 20 July 2016.

Statement by the Delegation of Norway in response to the presentations on European security by Mr. A. Michaelis and by Prof. Dr. J. Voorhoeve

Publishing date: 9 March 2016

Collections: 62nd Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council

Content type: Statement / speech

Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation

What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector

Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

62nd Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council

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Journal of the 1098th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Publishing date: 28 April 2016

Collections: 1098th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Content type: Conference / meeting document

Where we are: Permanent Council

What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Rule of law

Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian Federation. 30th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Belarus, Annex). Violation of the right to freedom of assembly and expression in the United States of America. Parliamentary elections in Serbia, held on 24 April 2016. The situation along the line of contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Violations by the Republic of Armenia of the ceasefire agreement of 5 April 2016. Second Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide, held in Yerevan on 23 April 2016, and the Aurora Prize Award presented in Yerevan on 24 April 2016. The case of Mr. A. Askarov in Kyrgyzstan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.