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Investigative journalism competition organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania for best stories on education, health and 2019 earthquake.

Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Grau. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Yaşar Halit Çevik. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1380 on the date and venue of the 2020 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1381 on the agenda, timetable and organizational modalities of the 2020 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Regarding the illegal checkpoints in the Security Zone, serious constraints on the free movement and human rights in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak (Moldova, Annex 1). Situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 2). Aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan and situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan, Annex 3). European and World Day against the Death Penalty, observed on 10 October 2020. Attacks on freedom of opinion and expression and on media freedom in Belarus. The case of Mr. Y. Dmitriev. Parliamentary elections in Liechtenstein, to be held on 7 February 2021.

Security Dialogue on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition (SCA): “Twenty Years of the OSCE Documents on SALW and SCA – Twenty Years of Assistance Projects, Seen From a Donor’s and a Recipient’s Perspective”: – Presentation by Ms. J. Balfoort, Director for Security and Defence Policy, European External Action Service; – Presentation by Ms. L. Mojsovska Petrova, Head of Department for Weapons, Explosives and Dangerous Substances, National Focal Point, National Commission for Small Arms and Light Weapons, Ministry of Interior of the Republic of North Macedonia; – Presentation by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje; – Presentation by Mr. M. Bleinroth, Permanent Mission of Germany to the OSCE, until August 2020 Head of the Division for Conventional Disarmament, Arms Control and CSBM in the German Federal Foreign Office (Azerbaijan, Annex 1; Armenia, Annex 2; Hungary, Annex 3; Montenegro, Annex 4; Russian Federation, Annex 5; Chairperson of the Informal Group of Friends on SALW and SCA (Latvia), Annex 6; FSC Co-ordinator for Assistance Projects on SALW and SCA (Austria), Annex 7; Serbia, Annex 8). Situation in and around Ukraine (Russian Federation, Annex 9). Temporary suspension by Serbia of its military activities with all partners for the next 6 months (Serbia, Annex 10).

This report seeks to provide guidance to address challenges for the functioning of courts during pandemic related states of emergency, curfews and lockdowns.

ODIHR conclusions on 2020 Moldova presidential election

ODIHR conclusions after 2020 Georgia parliamentary elections

Information Exchange on Participating States’ Policy and/or National Practices and Procedures for the Export of Conventional Arms and Related Technology

Conventional Arms Transfer

The scope of this Note deals exclusively with the issue of parliamentary inquiries into the work of the judiciary with a view to identifying relevant international standards and OSCE human dimension commitments.