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June 2013 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the June 2013 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
957th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, expressed condolences to Romania in connection with a bus crash that had occurred in Montenegro, on 23 June 2013. Address by the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, H.E. Sergey Lebedev. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Ralf Breth (Greece, Annex 1; the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Annex 2). 2012 Annual Report by the Secretary General on the implementation of OSCE recruitment policies. Parliamentary elections in Albania, held on 23 June 2013. Forcible eviction of non-governmental organization “For Human Rights” in Moscow. The death penalty in Belarus. Recent adoption by the Transdniestrian side of the so-called “legal act on the border”. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Fifth World Congress against the Death Penalty, held in Madrid, from 12 to 15 June 2013 (Spain, also on behalf of France, Norway and Switzerland, Annex 3).
The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the OSCE, Ambassador K. Zaldastanishvili, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatović. Permanent Council Decision No. 1084 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2013 Annual Security Review Conference (Ireland-European Union, interpretative statement, attachment 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2). Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Ambassador György Szabó. Recent protests in Turkey. Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Russian Federation. Media defamation suits and judicial integrity in Slovakia. Violation of the right to privacy by the United States of America. Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan.
Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, H.E. Edward Nalbandian. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova. Permanent Council Decision No. 1083 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. Thirty-fourth meeting of the Ergneti Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, held on 31 May 2013. Administrative fines imposed on the non-governmental organization Kostroma Civic Initiatives Support Centre in the Russian Federation. Response to a statement made by the Russian Federation at the 947th meeting of the Permanent Council on the situation at the Guantánamo Detention Facility. Response to a statement made by Belarus at the 951st meeting of the Permanent Council on freedom of assembly in the United States of America. Response to a statement made by the Russian Federation at the 953rd meeting of the Permanent Council on freedom of the media in the United States of America. Amendments to the Law on Citizenship in Latvia. Education rights of national minorities in Estonia. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office (Russian Federation, Annex 1). 2013 National Security Strategy approved by the Government of Spain on 31 May 2013 (Spain, Annex 2).