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990th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the OSCE, Ambassador Kairat Sarybay, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, H.E. António Guterres. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova. Situation in Ukraine. Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Amendments to the Internet Law in Turkey. Freedom of the media in the Russian Federation. Human rights in places of detention in the United States of America. NGO legislation in Azerbaijan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Signing of the State Border Treaty and the Maritime Border Treaty between Estonia and the Russian Federation. Report by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Belarus on the Most Resonant Human Rights Violations in Certain Countries 2013.

982nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Prevention of Torture, 10-11 April 2014

733rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Presentation on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security and Human Rights of Armed Forces Personnel (Switzerland, Annex 1). Presentation on the Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies by Mr. J. Lindenmann, Deputy Director of the Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom, Annex 2). Seminar on the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, held in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 23 to 25 October 2013 (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Annex 3; Switzerland, also on behalf of Germany, Annex 4). Donors conference on the MONDEM programme, held in Podgorica on 1 November 2013.

Human Dimension Seminar on Improving OSCE effectiveness by enhancing its co-operation with relevant regional and international organizations

Joint declaration by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Organization of American States (OAS) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, presented at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event, May 6 2014.

Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings: One Decade Later (Russian Federation, interpretative statement 1; Holy See, interpretative statement 2; Azerbaijan, interpretative statement 3; Armenia, interpretative statement 4).

Forwarding of draft documents to the Ministerial Council.