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May 2013 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

This is a collection of documents of the May 2013 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
  • 954th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Secretary General of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM, H.E. Valeri Chechelashvili. Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, Ambassador Ivo Petrov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, and by the Director of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Mr. Maxim Ryabkov. Meeting in the “5+2” negotiation format on the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict, held in Odessa, Ukraine, on 23 and 24 May 2013. Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in Georgia and in the United States of America. Installation of fences in the Tskhinvali region. Detention of former Minister of Culture Mr. G. Nurmuhammedov in Turkmenistan. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (including Human Rights Youth Education on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination), held in Tirana on 21 and 22 May 2013 (Turkey, also on behalf of Norway and Switzerland, Annex 1; Albania, Annex 2).
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    30 May 2013
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  • 953rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Romania to the OSCE, Ambassador C. Istrate, who delivered some remarks to mark the assumption of his post. Report by the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Dr. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro. Presentation of the 2014 Programme Outline by the Secretary General, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier. International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, celebrated on 17 May 2013. Freedom of the media in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Third trilateral summit meeting of the Presidents of Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, held in Ankara on 14 and 15 May 2013. Parliamentary elections in Norway, to be held on 9 September 2013. National Day for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in France, celebrated on 10 May 2013.
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    16 May 2013
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  • 952nd Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, Ireland-European Union, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia offered condolences to Turkey in connection with the bombing that took place in Reyhanli, Turkey, on 11 May 2013. Turkey thanked the Chairperson and the participating States for this expression of sympathy. Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, H.E. Elmar Mammadyarov.
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    14 May 2013
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  • 951st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton. Permanent Council Decision No. 1082 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2013 Human Dimension Seminar (Ireland-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2). Celebration of Victory Day on 9 May 2013. Celebration of Europe Day on 9 May 2013. Abolition of the death penalty in Maryland, United States of America. Human rights situation in Belarus. The death penalty in Belarus. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.
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    9 May 2013
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  • 950th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council, Mr. Goran Svilanović (statement by the Delegation of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, also on behalf of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey, annexed). Freedom of religion or belief in Kazakhstan. Third “Heart of Asia” Ministerial Conference in the framework of the Istanbul Process, held in Almaty on 26 April 2013. Recent incident in the security zone of the Transdniestrian conflict on 26 and 27 April 2013. Administrative fines imposed on the non-governmental organization Golos in the Russian Federation. Barring of the non-governmental organization Centre for Civic Initiatives from the House of Representatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Combating manifestations of aggressive nationalism and of neo-Nazism. Ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Tymoshenko versus Ukraine. World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on 3 May 2013.
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    2 May 2013
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