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1157th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1157th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Inaugural remarks by the Secretary General, Mr. Thomas Greminger. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu (United Kingdom, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Spain, Annex 2). Adoption through a silence procedure of Permanent Council Decision No. 1266 on the topic and dates of the Human Dimension Seminar in Warsaw. Adoption through a silence procedure of Permanent Council Decision No. 1267 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2017 Human Dimension Seminar. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed on 30 August. Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. Linguistic discrimination in Latvia. Violations of freedom of the media in Estonia. Recent hate-related violence in the United States of America. Neo-Nazism and the tragedy of Charlottesville, United States of America. Legislative developments in Moldova. Arrest of Mr. K. Serebrennikov, Art Director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. Freedom of the media and the safety of journalists in the United States of America and in the Member States of the European Union. Persecution of journalists in Ukraine. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the OSCE, Ambassador P. McDonagh. Presidential election in Slovenia, to be held on 22 October 2017.

1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Report by the outgoing OSCE Secretary General, Mr. Lamberto Zannier. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1253 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2017 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Freedom of peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Rule of law and human rights defenders in Turkey. Concerns about a restrictive civil society law in Hungary. Detention by Azerbaijan of Armenian citizen Mr. Z. Karapetyan. Final Report of the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Referendum Observation Mission to observe the Constitutional Referendum held in Turkey on 16 April 2017. Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, to be held on 15 October 2017. Seventy-sixth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, observed on 22 June 2017.

1150th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by a Representative of the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Security and Multilateral Issues of the Czech Republic, Mr. Ivo Šrámek. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1251 on the Programme Office in Dushanbe (Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Tajikistan, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1252 on the approval of the 2017 Unified Budget (Chairperson, Annex 1; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 3; France, interpretative statement 4; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 5; Austria, interpretative statement 6). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Murder of Mr. D. Popkov. Continued reports of arrests, unlawful detention, torture and killing of homosexual men by the Chechen authorities. International Children’s Day, observed on 1 June 2017. Participation of the Secretary General in the 2017 OSCE Youth Conference, held in Málaga, Spain, on 25 and 26 May 2017 (Spain, Annex 2).

1148th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1146th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council