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Keynote speech by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to the Forum on Language Compliance
Publishing date: 9 November 2017
Keynote speech "The Importance of Language Compliance" by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, to the Forum on Language Compliance, Prishtinë/Priština, 9 November 2017.
Keynote speech by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Publishing date: 25 October 2017
Keynote speech by Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, to the OSCE Mediterranean Conference 2017, Palermo, Sicily, 25 October 2017.
Statement by the Delegation of Ukraine in response to the statements by delegations
Publishing date: 28 September 2017
Collections: 1157th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
1157th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation on the newly adopted law of education in Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 September 2017
Collections: 1157th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Side event: Presentation on drafting new HCNM Guidelines on National Minorities and the Media in the Digital Age
Publishing date: 10 October 2017
Side event: Presentation on drafting new HCNM Guidelines on National Minorities and the Media in the Digital Age, 19th Central Asia Media Conference, 18-19 October 2017, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Not available in English.
Journal of the 1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Publishing date: 31 August 2017
Collections: 1156th 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.
Statement by the Delegation of Latvia in response to the statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation on the linguistic discrimination in Latvia
Publishing date: 31 August 2017
Collections: 1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation on the linguistic discrimination in Latvia
Publishing date: 31 August 2017
Collections: 1156th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Journal of the 1150th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Publishing date: 22 June 2017
Collections: 1150th 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.
Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation on violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia
Publishing date: 22 June 2017
Collections: 1150th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council