1135th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection H.E. Volker Türk. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Maryse Daviet. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1243 on the OSCE 2016 year-end Unified Budget revision. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1244 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan (Tajikistan, interpretative statement). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. “Constitutional referendum” in Nagorno-Karabakh. Large-scale military provocation by the armed forces of Armenia in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Escalation of the situation along the line of contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Statement by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group. Release of the former chief editor of the opposition newspaper Erk Mr. M. Bekjanov in Uzbekistan. Human rights violations by the Russian Federation in the illegally occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Release of Mr. I. Dadin in the Russian Federation. The case of Mr. I. Dadin in the Russian Federation. Ongoing efforts to silence independent voices in the Russian Federation. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States of America. Zero Discrimination Day, observed on 1 March 2017. The case of Mr. S. Nepeskuliev in Turkmenistan. Presidential and parliamentary elections in France, to be held on 23 April and 7 May 2017 and on 11 and 18 June 2017 respectively.