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Address by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, at All Souls College, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 25 March 2019.

Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir. Address by the Chairperson of the OSCE MenEngage Network, Ambassador Andrej Benedejčič; and Ms. Barbora Burajová, Coordinating-Methodical Centre on Gender-Based and Domestic Violence, Slovakia, on the Occasion of the International Women’s Day. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Continuing violations of linguistic and educational rights in Estonia. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Spain to the OSCE, Ambassador V. González Román. Zero Discrimination Day, observed on 1 March 2019. Elections to the European Parliament, to be held in the Member States of the European Union from 23 to 26 May 2019. General election in Spain, to be held on 28 April 2019 (Spain, Annex).

Report by the Chief Observer of the OSCE Observer Mission at Two Russian Checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian Border, Ambassador György Varga. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The situation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation. Violations of the rights of national minorities in the Russian Federation. Democracy and the rule of law in Spain (Spain, Annex). Presidential election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to be held on 21 April and 5 May 2019. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the OSCE, Ambassador S. Milačić.

1217th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Op-ed by Lamberto Zannier "How media can help integration in diverse societies" on the occasion of the Digital Launch of the Tallinn Guidelines on National Minorities and the Media in the Digital Age, Tallinn, 13 February 2019.

Presentations by the Chairpersons of the Economic and Environmental Committee and the Human Dimension Committee. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and the illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The application of criminal charges against Ms. A. Shevchenko under the law on “Undesirable Organizations” in the Russian Federation. Violations of OSCE commitments by Ukraine in the context of the presidential election on 31 March 2019. Sami People’s Day, observed on 6 February 2019.

1216th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1216th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Harlem Désir (United Kingdom, Annex). Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Clemens Koja. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and the illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Detention of civil society representatives in Turkey. Grave violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples in Canada. Eighty-fifth anniversary of the Holodomor.