June 2011 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

2010 Annual Report on the implementation of OSCE Recruitment Policies, by the Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic. Permanent Council Decision No. 1000 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. Situation in Belarus. Closure of the Human Rights Watch office in Tashkent. The death penalty and consular access in the United States of America. Freedom of the media in Tajikistan. Draft law on parental responsibility in Tajikistan. Death of Ms. Jelena Bonner, founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, on 19 June 2011. Review of human dimension commitments in OSCE fora. Process of selecting the OSCE Secretary General (statement by the OSCE PA Special Representative, Ambassador Andreas Nothelle, annexed). Presidential and local elections to be held in Bulgaria on 23 October 2011 (statement by the Delegation of Bulgaria annexed).

Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj. Human rights situation in the United States of America. Report by the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Rapporteur, Professor Emmanuel Decaux (statements by the Delegation of the Czech Republic, also on behalf of a group of countries, by the Delegation of the Russian Federation, by the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, by the Delegation of the United States of America, by the Delegation of Switzerland, also on behalf of Liechtenstein, by the Delegation of Canada, and by the Delegation of Belarus annexed).

Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia, H.E. Gombojav Zandanshatar. Selection procedure for the OSCE Secretary General.