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1181st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Speech by Andreea Vesa, Human Rights Programme Manager, OSCE Mission to Moldova, on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Chisinau, 26 January 2018.

This project was implemented by the OSCE Presence in Albania (PiA) in collaboration with the Institute of Romani Culture in Albania (IRCA) as implementing partner, and the Central Election Commission. It was financially supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Note: This report was produced by IRCA, and it does not necessarily represent the views of the OSCE PiA.

The present report provides a summary of a workshop on Roma and Sinti issues hosted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the European Parliament in Brussels on 27 and 28 March 2017.

Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Mr. Michael Georg Link. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1247 on the establishment of the OSCE Information Security Enhancement Fund. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1248 on the agenda, timetable and organizational modalities of the 2017 OSCE Asian Conference. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1249 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Maltese EU Presidency, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4). Thirty-ninth round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 28 and 29 March 2017. International Roma Day, to be observed on 8 April 2017. Parliamentary elections in Armenia, held on 2 April 2017. Proposed legislation affecting foreign educational institutions in Hungary. Reports of arrests and murders of homosexual men by the Chechen authorities. Closure of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in the Russian Federation.

1141st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1141st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1141st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

The conference on Forced and Coercive Sterilization of Roma Women: Justice and Reparations for Victims in the Czech Republic was organized by the OSCE/ODIHR on 1 June 2016 in Prague.