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The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1436 on the revision of the 2021 Unified Budget.

The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1435 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.

The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1434 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

October- December 2021

Closing of the Austrian FSC Chairmanship: statement by Dieter Kandlhofer, Secretary general, Federal ministry of defence, Austria. Address by OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid. General statements (Sweden, Annex 1; Germany, Annex 2; Armenia, Annex 3; United States of America, Annex 4; Turkey, Annex 5; Switzerland, Annex 6; Canada, Annex 7; United Kingdom, Annex 8; Russian Federation, Annex 9). The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 7/21 on the updated Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for Management, Security and Destruction of Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (Russian Federation, interpretative statement). The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 8/21 on the updated Best Practice Guide on Procedures for Management of Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition (Russian Federation, interpretative statement). The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 9/21 on the updated Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for Stockpile Management and Security of Small Arms and Light Weapons (Russian Federation, interpretative statement; Chairperson of the Informal Group of Friends on Small Arms and Light Weapons and Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition (Latvia), Annex 10). 19th Annual Consultation on the review of the implementation of the Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Naval Field in the Black Sea, held on 9 December 2021 (Russian Federation, Annex 11).

Commissioned by the Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media along with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Prepared by: Antonina Cherevko; Dr Paolo Cavaliere; Prof Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou; and Alice Thomas

2021 OSCE Asian Conference, Vienna and via Zoom, 20-21 September 2021