1016th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman. Address by the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Šimonović. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1132 on the agenda for the 2014 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Italy-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4). Concerns regarding the increasing threat to the OSCE area posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Abduction of a police officer, Mr. E. Kohver, from Estonia by Russian security services. Postponement of a meeting in the “5+2” negotiation format on the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict, originally scheduled to be held in Vienna on 11 and 12 September 2014. Reinforcement of the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.