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957th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

The 19th Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, Dublin, 6-7 December 2012.

Address of the Acting Head of Mission of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Waldemar Figaj, on behalf of the Head of Mission, on the occasion of Day of Journalists of Montenegro.

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson informed the Permanent Council that the Chairperson-in-Office, in a letter (Annex 1) issued on 17 July 2013, had announced the adoption through a silence procedure of Ministerial Council Decision No. 2/13 on the appointment of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the text of which is appended to this journal. Address by the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Mr. Dmitry Mezentsev. Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin. Permanent Council Decision No. 1087 on the dates and agenda of the 2013 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Needs Assessment Mission Report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, to be held in October 2013 (ODIHR.GAL/51/13). Release of former Minister of Culture Mr. G. Nurmuhammedov in Turkmenistan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Activities for the promotion of tolerance and non-discrimination in Andorra. Erection of a monument in Berlin to the victims of Nazi euthanasia programmes (Germany, Annex 2).

Hate Monitor is a monthly visualization of the Mission’s hate crimes monitoring data. It presents the latest data on all known bias-motivated incidents and responses to these incidents by the justice sector, local authorities, and civil society throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

715th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Presentations by Ms. Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, Chief of Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Ambassador Adam Kobieracki, Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre, on outputs of the OSCE Workshop to Identify the Proper Role of the OSCE in Facilitation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), Ambassador Branka Latinovic, Director of the Directorate for Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Marko Milivojevic, Criminal Police Department, Forensic Division, Ministry of the Interior of Serbia, on CBRN governance, and Mr. Vasily Pavlov, Senior Counsellor, Department of International Security and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, on efforts to tackle the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the UNSCR 1540 context. Forum for Security Co-operation Decision No. 5/11 on the Reference Guide on the Questionnaire on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Poland, also on behalf of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the Czech Republic, attached).