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Henrik Villadsen, Director and Officer-in-Charge, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

1141st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1141st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Nikola Poposki. Report by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Dr. Halil Yurdakul Yigitgüden. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1246 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (Russian Federation, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Canada, interpretative statement 3; Ukraine, interpretative statement 4; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 5). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Three years of Russia’s attempted annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Recent developments affecting relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Ukraine. Neo-Nazism in Latvia. Human rights defenders Ms. E. Urlaeva and Mr. A. Farmonov in Uzbekistan. Constitutional reform in Kazakhstan.

1137th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1137th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by Henrik Villadsen, Director and Officer-in-Charge, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, to the Launch of the OSCE-UNHCR “Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE Area: International Standards and Good Practices", Vienna, 2 March 2017.

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu (France, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Spain, Annex 2). 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 Estonia. Weakening the ability to protect against domestic violence in Russia. Attempted incursion by Azerbaijani armed forces along the line of contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

1132nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. Armed provocation by Azerbaijan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani State border. Continued violation by Armenia of its obligations under international humanitarian law by refusing to return the body of a deceased Azerbaijani serviceman. Abduction of two Azerbaijani civilians by Armenia in the occupied territories. Ensuring constitutional policing in the United States of America. Continued inclusion of civil society organizations in the register of “foreign agents” in the Russian Federation. Ensuring the linguistic rights of the Russian-speaking population of Lithuania. The case of journalist Mr. H. Dink. Destruction of cultural heritage in the Georgian region of Abkhazia. Situation around the extension of the Mandate of the OSCE Office in Yerevan (Azerbaijan, Annex 1). Non-implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and its implications for the OSCE Minsk Process (Azerbaijan, Annex 2). Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Extension of the mandate of the OSCE Observer Mission at two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian Border (Switzerland, Annex 3). Parliamentary elections in Armenia, to be held on 2 April 2017. St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, to be held from 1 to 3 June 2017.