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October 2016 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

This is a collection of documents of the October 2016 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
  • 1116th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Ms. Christine Muttonen. Address by the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, H.E. Peter Maurer (France, Annex 1). The Permanent Council placed the decision on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2016 Human Dimension Seminar, the text of which is appended to this journal, under a silence procedure with the period of silence expiring on Wednesday, 2 November 2016, at 5 p.m. CET. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violation of the freedom of the media in the United Kingdom (United Kingdom, Annex 2). Violation of the rights of migrants in the European Union. Pressure on independent voices in Turkmenistan. Ongoing concerns about restrictions on civil society in the Russian Federation. Glorification of an SS veteran in Estonia. Parliamentary elections in Montenegro, held on 16 October 2016. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.
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    27 October 2016
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  • 63rd Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council
    Security Dialogue: Revisiting the 1996 OSCE Framework for Arms Control - presentations by: – Ambassador F. Seixas da Costa, former Chairperson of the Permanent Council, Portugal; – Ambassador S. Baumann, Deputy Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, German Federal Foreign Office (Russian Federation, Annex).
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    19 October 2016
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  • 1115th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Report by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Mr. Michael Georg Link, on the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Tajikistan, Annex). Report by the Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre, Ambassador Marcel Pesko. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Thirty-seventh round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on 4 and 5 October 2016. World and European Day against the Death Penalty, observed on 10 October 2016. Parliamentary elections in Georgia, held on 8 October 2016. Silencing of independent voices in the Russian Federation. Concerns related to independent media in Kazakhstan. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Parliamentary elections in Iceland, to be held on 29 October 2016. Parliamentary elections in Liechtenstein, to be held on 5 February 2017. Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, to be held on 15 March 2017.
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    13 October 2016
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  • 1114th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. Presentation by the OSCE Secretary General of the 2017 Unified Budget Proposal. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1221 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Russian Federation, interpretative statement 1; Slovakia-European Union, interpretative statement 2; United States of America, interpretative statement 3; Ukraine, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1222 on the topic and dates of the Human Dimension Seminar in Warsaw. Participation of Mr. K. Batyrov in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from 19 to 30 September 2016 (Kyrgyzstan, Annex). Illegal economic and other activities in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Constitutional referendum in Azerbaijan, held on 26 September 2016. Elections to the State Duma in the Russian Federation, held on 18 September 2016. Unfounded detention of Ukrainian journalist Mr. R. Sushchenko in the Russian Federation. Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938. Use of force by Azerbaijan to deny the people of Nagorno-Karabakh the right to self-determination. Report on the Activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Presidential and vice-presidential elections in Bulgaria and referendum on future amendments to the national legislation, to be held on 6 November 2016.
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    4 October 2016
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