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Situation in and around Ukraine (Ukraine, Annex 1; Russian Federation, Annex 2). Workshop on security sector governance and reform, held in Armenia from 8 to 11 November 2016 (Armenia, Annex 3). Fourteenth annual consultations on the review of the implementation of the Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Naval Field in the Black Sea, held on 17 November 2016 (Russian Federation, Annex 4); Ukraine, Annex 5).

January- March 2017

The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1237 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1238 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan, interpretative statement). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1239 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Ukraine, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 3; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1240 on the revision of the 2016 Unified Budget. Lack of consensus on the draft decision on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Yerevan and on the draft decision on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.

840th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

840th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

840th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Address by the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Ioannis Kasoulides. Address by the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, H.E. Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu. Update by the Secretary General on the Status of the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (Switzerland, Annex). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Enforced disappearances in Turkmenistan. The cases of Mr. M. Bokayev and Mr. T. Ayan in Kazakhstan. Violation of the rights of migrants in the European Union. The case of Mr. A. Askarov in Kyrgyzstan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.

The Opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the request of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria received in February 2017. It has benefited from contributions made by the National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

1133rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council