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July 2013 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the July 2013 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
963rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Permanent Council Decision No. 1090 on the agenda for the 2013 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (United States of America, interpretative statement) (Lithuania-European Union, Annex). Permanent Council Decision No. 1091 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Permanent Council Decision No. 1092 on the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku.
Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Council, offered condolences to Spain in connection with the train crash that took place near Santiago de Compostela on 24 July 2013. Report on Progress made under the Helsinki+40 Process. Permanent Council Decision No. 1088 on the theme, agenda and modalities for the Twenty-Second Economic and Environmental Forum. Permanent Council Decision No. 1089 on the Financial Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2012 and the Report of the External Auditor. The cases of Mr. S. Magnitsky, Mr. A. Navalny and Mr. P. Ofitserov in the Russian Federation. Recent developments in Belarus. Situation of Roma in the OSCE area. Response to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. Extradition from Lithuania of Mr. D. Ustinov. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Planned visit to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Conference on Mediation in the OSCE Area, held in Bucharest on 15 and 16 July 2013.
Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson informed the Permanent Council that the Chairperson-in-Office, in a letter (Annex 1) issued on 17 July 2013, had announced the adoption through a silence procedure of Ministerial Council Decision No. 2/13 on the appointment of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the text of which is appended to this journal. Address by the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Mr. Dmitry Mezentsev. Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin. Permanent Council Decision No. 1087 on the dates and agenda of the 2013 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Needs Assessment Mission Report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, to be held in October 2013 (ODIHR.GAL/51/13). Release of former Minister of Culture Mr. G. Nurmuhammedov in Turkmenistan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Activities for the promotion of tolerance and non-discrimination in Andorra. Erection of a monument in Berlin to the victims of Nazi euthanasia programmes (Germany, Annex 2).
The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE, Ambassador Vittorio Rocco di Torrepadula. Report by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek. Decision No. 1086 on the recommendation to appoint the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Response to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. Responses to a statement by the Russian Federation made at the 959th meeting of the Permanent Council on demonstrations against same-sex marriage in the OSCE area. Eighteenth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fortieth anniversary of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, marked on 7 July 2013. Safety of journalists in the OSCE area. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.
Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Koray Targay. Financial report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012 and the Report of the External Auditor. Annual Report of the Audit Committee. Permanent Council Decision No. 1085 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2013 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Twenty-fourth round of the Geneva International Discussions, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 25 and 26 June 2013. Presidential elections in Mongolia, held on 26 June 2013. Suspension order imposed on the non-governmental organization Golos in the Russian Federation. Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Russian Federation. Xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the OSCE area. The Voting Rights Act in the United States of America. Report on the activites of the Chairperson-in-Office.
958th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Addresses by the Federal Councillor, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, H.E. Didier Burkhalter; and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, H.E. Ivan Mrkić.