October 2014 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Michael Scanlan. Address by the Head of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, Mr. Francesco Bastagli. Presentations by the Chairperson of the Security Committee; the Chairperson of the Economic and Environmental Committee; and the Chairperson of the Human Dimension Committee. Ongoing violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation and the situation in Ukraine. Situation in Ukraine and the continuing violations of the norms of international humanitarian law during the punitive operation in eastern Ukraine. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian Federation. International Day of the Girl Child, observed on 11 October 2014. Freedom of expression in the OSCE area. The denial of entry to Estonia of Mr. V. Tishkov of the Russian Ethnology and Anthropology Institute. Kyrgyzstan’s draft “LGBT Propaganda” law. Statement on the Russian NGO Memorial Society. Report on the Herberts Cukurs play in Latvia. General elections in Sweden, held on 14 September 2014. Police brutality in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.