Journal of the 1307th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 1). Mass and systemic violations of human rights in the United States of America. Constitutional reform in Kyrgyzstan. Freedom of assembly in the Russian Federation. Recent developments in Belarus. Twenty-second anniversary of NATO’s aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Twenty-second anniversary of NATO’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo (Italy, Annex 2; Germany, Annex 3). Turkey’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) (Germany, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 4; Turkey, Annex 5). Fifth anniversary of the 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, observed on 22 March 2021. Lessons from the Khatyn massacre in 1943 and preventing the glorification of Nazism.