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April 2013 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the April 2013 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
949th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Permanent Council Decision No. 1080 on the appointment of the External Auditor. Permanent Council Decision No. 1081 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (including Human Rights Youth Education on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination) (Ireland-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 3; Holy See, Annex). Belgrade-Pristina agreement on the principles for the normalization of relations. Attack on Mr. Makhmadali Khait in Tajikistan. Commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-office. Release by the US Department of State of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012. Extrabudgetary activities in the OSCE. Meeting of the Contact Group with the Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation, held in Vienna on 19 April 2013.
The Chairperson, the Russian Federation, Ireland-European Union, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the Holy See, Kazakhstan, Canada, Israel (Partner for Co-operation), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Algeria (Partner for Co-operation), Jordan (Partner for Co-operation), Afghanistan (Partner for Co-operation) and Uzbekistan extended condolences to the United States of America in connection with the bombing at the Boston Marathon. The United States of America thanked the Permanent Council for its expression of sympathy. Address by the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna, H.E. Yury Fedotov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush. Permanent Council Decision No. 1079 on the dates of the 2013 Annual Security Review Conference. Closure of the Free Thought University in Azerbaijan. Suspension by the International Committee of the Red Cross of its visits to places of detention in Uzbekistan. Rights of children in the OSCE area. Situation at the Guantánamo detention facility. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential elections in Mongolia, to be held on 26 June 2013 (Mongolia, Annex). Decision by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bureau to reactivate the 1997 Co-operation Agreement between the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
The Chairperson expressed condolences to Serbia in connection with the mass shooting which occurred in Velika Ivanča, Serbia, on 9 April 2013. Serbia thanked the Chairperson for the condolences. The Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Croatia to the OSCE, Ambassador D. Šimonović, who made a short speech to mark the assumption of her post. Address by the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Patricia Flor. Pardoning of Mr. Y. Lutsenko in Ukraine. Twenty-third round of the Geneva Discussions, held on 27 March 2013. Inspection of non-governmental organizations in the Russian Federation. Freedom of religion in Kazakhstan. International Roma Day, observed on 8 April 2013. Situation at the Guantánamo Detention Facility. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Death of the Foreign Service Officer Ms. A. Smedinghoff in Afghanistan. International Conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, to be held in Oslo on 15 and 16 April 2013. Tenth Slovak Annual Congress on Power and Energy entitled “Safety and Security of the Energy Infrastructure, Stable Investment Environment and Innovations – The Way to the Sustainable Energy Future”, to be held in Bratislava on 23 and 24 April 2013. Regional conference on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, held in Paris on 26 March 2013.
946th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Permanent Council Decision No. 1076 on the dates of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Turkey, interpretative statement 1; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 2). Permanent Council Decision No. 1077 on the topics for the second part of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Turkey, interpretative statement 1; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 2; Norway, also on behalf of Canada, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, interpretative statement 3). Permanent Council Decision No. 1078 on the topic and dates of the Human Dimension Seminar in Warsaw (Turkey, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, Annex 1; Russian Federation, Annex 2; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 2).