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This report presents a general overview of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), its main activities and latest news as of21 February 2018.

This commentary is primarily intended for legal practitioners, such as prosecutors and judges, victims’ advocates, but also for other persons interested in the international and Albanian legal framework of the prosecution aspects of human trafficking. In Albanian only.

This is the first public report by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the monitoring of corruption cases in BiH. To the Mission’s best knowledge, it is also the first analysis of this kind carried out in BiH. This report constitutes one of the main outputs of the Mission’s Project on Assessing Needs of Judicial Response to Corruption through Monitoring of Criminal Cases (ARC Project) which was initiated in October 2016 with the support of the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).

Speech by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir at the panel “Dangerous Assignments: Safety of women journalists”, held on the sidelines of the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, and organized by the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, 14 March 2018.

2017 OSCE Asian Conference on Common Challenges and Common Opportunities, Berlin, 19-20 June 2017.

Report by the Special Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office on Youth and Security, Ms. Anna-Katharina Deininger. The Permanent Council placed the decision on the extension of the mandate of the Programme Office in Dushanbe, the text of which is appended to this journal, under a silence procedure with the period of silence expiring on Thursday, 28 December 2017, at 3 p.m. CET. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Forty-second round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 12 and 13 December 2017. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Inaugural remarks by the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, H.E. Karin Kneissl, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign. Farewell statement by the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship. Presidential election in the Russian Federation, to be held on 18 March 2018.

868th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 6/17 on the dates and venue of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Implementation Assessment Meeting. Situation in and around Ukraine. Irregular military exercises on the territory of Moldova.

Forwarding of a draft agenda to the Ministerial Council.