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May 2015 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the May 2015 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1055th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Report by the Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, Ambassador Ivo Petrov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Jonathan Moore. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian
Federation. Russian law on so-called “undesirable” non-governmental organizations. International Week of the Disappeared. Marriage referendum in Ireland, held on 22 May 2015 (Ireland, Annex 1). Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Parliamentary elections in Denmark, to be held on 18 June 2015. Summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process, held in Tirana on 26 May 2015. Draft report of the Economic and Environmental Committee, as tasked by Ministerial Council Decision No. 5/14 on prevention of corruption (Chairperson, Annex 2; Latvia-European Union, Annex 3).
Address by the Minister of Women’s Affairs of Afghanistan, H.E. Dilbar Nazari. Report by the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Seventy-first anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people by the Soviet regime. International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, observed on 17 May 2015. Twenty-first anniversary of the ceasefire agreement. Situation in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Visit of the agents of the illegal separatist regime to France. International Day of Families, observed on 15 May 2015. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation entitled “Neo-Nazism: A Dangerous Threat to Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law” (SEC.DEL/279/15).
Report by the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Ambassador Markus Müller. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Michael Scanlan. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian Federation. Recent events in Kumanovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Situation in Baltimore, United States of America. Situation in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan, Annex). The death penalty in the United States of America. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Conference on freedom of expression and the media, held in Tirana on 11 and 12 May 2015.
1051st Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
The Chairperson extended condolences to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in connection with the latest developments in Kumanovo on 9 and 10 May 2015. Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain, H.E. José Manuel García-Margallo.
Seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War (Kazakhstan, also on behalf of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Annex 1; Belarus, Annex 2; Ukraine, Annex 3; Germany, Annex 4). Presentation of the 2016 Programme Outline by the Secretary General. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1170 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2015 Human Dimension Seminar. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the Russian Federation. Political prisoners in Belarus. World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on 3 May 2015. Statement by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.