July 2017 Plenary Meetings of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Security dialogue: international and national experience of the OSCE participating states in the field of the management of stockpiles of conventional ammunition (ca) and destruction of its surplus: – Swiss Initiative on Safe and Secure Management of Ammunition, presentation by Colonel P. Chaudhuri, Head of Verification Unit, Deputy Head of Euro-Atlantic Security Cooperation, Swiss Armed Forces; – National Experience of the Russian Federation in Complex Utilization of Conventional Ammunition, presentation by Mr. A. Gusev, Deputy Director of Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Russian Federation; – SALW and CA Stockpile Management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE support to BiH, presentation by Mr. A. Sarban, OSCE Arms Control Project Officer, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Forum for Security Co-operation adopted Decision No. 3/17 on the OSCE meeting to review the implementation of OSCE assistance projects in the field of small arms and light weapons and stockpiles of conventional ammunition. Food-for-thought paper on OSCE best practices against the illicit reactivation and transformation of small arms and light weapons (Germany, also on behalf of France, Annex 1; France, also on behalf of Germany, Annex 2). Joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation “Zapad 2017” to be conducted from 14 to 20 September 2017. Situation in and around Ukraine.