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Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson expressed condolences to the United States of America in connection with the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three staff members in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September 2012. Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. Sergi Kapanadze. Address by the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking Countries, Mr. Ramil Hasanov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth. Response by the Delegation of Hungary to a statement made by the United States of America at the 923rd meeting of the Permanent Council on the situation of members of the Roma community in participating States of the OSCE. Manifestations of aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism in participating States of the OSCE. Death penalty in the United States of America. Situation in Belarus. Freedom of assembly in the United States of America. Report on the OSCE ambassadorial visit to Yerevan and Baku from 6 to 11 September 2012. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States of America. Parliamentary elections to be held in Romania on 9 December 2012.

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the OSCE, Ambassador Bruno Georges, the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the OSCE, Ambassador Fredrik Löjdquist, and the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the OSCE, Mr. Ismatullo Nasredinov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer. Report by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Article IV of Annex 1-B of the Dayton Peace Accords, Major General Michele Torres. Situation of members of the Roma community in participating States of the OSCE. Extradition from Hungary and subsequent pardoning of Mr. R. Safarov in Azerbaijan (Armenia, Annex 1; Azerbaijan, Annex 2). Freedom of expression in the Russian Federation. Recent developments in Tajikistan. Situation in Belarus. Presidential elections in the United States of America, to be held on 6 November 2012. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential elections in Slovenia, to be held on 11 November 2012 (Slovenia, Annex 3).

924th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

923rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

923rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Permanent Council Decision No. 1044 on the dates and agenda of the 2012 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Permanent Council Decision No. 1045 on the agenda for the 2012 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (interpretative statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation attached). Permanent Council Decision No. 1046 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2012 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Permanent Council Decision No. 1047 on the theme, agenda and modalities for the Twenty-First Economic and Environmental Forum. Permanent Council Decision No. 1048 on the OSCE Concept for Combating the Threat of Illicit Drugs and the Diversion of Chemical Precursors. Permanent Council Decision No. 1049 on the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities. Recent developments in Tajikistan. Attack on Ms. Štefica Galić in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Discrimination and violence against Romani persons in the OSCE region. Human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus. Freedom of the media in Ukraine. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Local elections to be held on 7 October 2012 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Reappointment of Ambassador Janez Lenarčič as Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (interpretative statement by the delegation of Canada, also on behalf of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, attached)

“The Roma people – a pan-European challenge”, Center of the Diocese of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 25 January 2013.

Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Koray Targay. Situation in Belarus. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, observed on 26 June 2012. European Union Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy. Thirteenth anniversary of the disappearance of Agron, Mehmet, and Ylli Bytyqi in Serbia. Draft legislation on foreign agents in the Russian Federation. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. European Union Symposium for OSCE Ambassadors, on the theme: “To make a tangible difference to Roma people’s lives”, held in Vienna on 22 June 2012.

922nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council