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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 of 18 April 2018.

Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. David Dondua. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Mr. John MacGregor. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Desecration of monuments in Poland. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Violations of the rights of human rights defenders in the Russian Federation. Enforced disappearances in Turkmenistan. Human rights and the rule of law in Turkey. International Roma Day, observed on 8 April 2018. Police brutality in Kosovska Mitrovica and the illegal detention of Mr. M. Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of the Republic of Serbia. Concerns about freedom of expression and the detention of Mr. K. Mirsaidov in Tajikistan. Farewell to the Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OSCE, Mr. B. Güldere. Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan, held on 25 March 2018. Midterm elections in the United States of America, culminating on 6 November 2018. General election in Sweden, to be held on 9 September 2018. Nerve agent attack in Salisbury, United Kingdom (United Kingdom, Annex 1; Estonia, Annex 2).

This report presents a general overview of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), its main activities and latest news as of 4 April 2018.

MAK Albania Hotel, IllyriaI, 5 April 2018.

The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1289 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (Canada, interpretative statement 1; to the decision; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Bulgaria-European Union, interpretative statement 3; France, interpretative statement 4; United States of America, interpretative statement 5; Ukraine, interpretative statement 6). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1290 on the dates of the 2018 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Obstacles to the conducting of the Russian presidential election in the Russian Federation’s diplomatic institutions in Ukraine. Non-recognition of the illegal Russian election in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine. Violations of children’s rights in the United Kingdom. Glorification of Nazism in Latvia. Uncorrected violations of international law and OSCE principles in connection with the 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Presidential election in the Russian Federation, held on 18 March 2018. Inclusion of two organizations in the list of so-called “undesirable organizations” in the Russian Federation. Ensuring constitutional policing in the United States of America. Presidential election in the Russian Federation, held on 18 March 2018.

1180th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1180th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This report presents a general overview of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), its main activities and latest news as of 21 March 2018.

... REMARKS BY HEAD OF PRESENCE AT INTERNATIONAL ELECTION WORKING GROUP MEETING 21 March 2018 A very warm welcome. Thank you for joining us today for this meeting of the International Election Working Group. It is a pleasure to welcome here the two co-chairs of the Ad Hoc Committee on Electoral

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Andrea Orizio. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The death penalty in Belarus and the United States of America. Illegal elections in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (Ukraine, Annex 1). Glorification of Nazism in Latvia. Detention of Mr. O. Titiev, head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, in the Russian Federation. Statement in response to the current issue on recent developments in the Transdniestrian settlement process in Moldova, raised at the 1178th Permanent Council meeting held on 8 March 2018. Nerve agent attack in Salisbury, United Kingdom (United Kingdom, Annex 2). Tashkent International High-Level Conference on Afghanistan, to be held on 26 and 27 March 2018.