1006th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Mr. Michael Georg Link. Address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay. Presentation by the Secretary General of the Annual Evaluation Report on the Implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality. Financial Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2013 and the Report of the External Auditor. Annual Report of the Audit Committee. Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1126 on the Financial Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2013 and the Report of the External Auditor. Ongoing violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation and the situation in Ukraine. Situation in Ukraine and the ongoing violations of the norms of international humanitarian law in the course of the punitive operations in south-eastern Ukraine. Release of human rights defender Mr. A. Bialiatski in Belarus. Legislative developments in Kazakhstan. Twenty-eighth round of the Geneva International Discussions, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 17 and 18 June 2014. United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, observed on 26 June 2014. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Meeting between the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of Spain, held in Madrid on 24 June 2014 (Spain, Annex). Signing of association agreements between the European Union and, respectively, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, on 27 June 2014. Seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Belarus.