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March 2017 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

This is a collection of documents of the March 2017 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
  • 1139th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Michael Scanlan. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Restrictions on the freedoms of expression, association and assembly in Belarus. Restrictions on the freedoms of expression, association and assembly in the Russian Federation. Ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation. Challenges to the Minsk Process owing to the provocative actions of Armenia. Meetings on Syria, held in Astana on 23 and 24 January, 14 and 15 February and 14 and 15 March 2017 respectively.
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    30 March 2017
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  • 1138th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Dean and Executive Secretary of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), Mr. Martin Kreutner. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. So-called parliamentary elections in the occupied Abkhazia region of Georgia. 18th anniversary of the violations of international law and of the Helsinki Final Act in the former Yugoslavia. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the OSCE, Ambassador H. Wurth. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Serbia to the OSCE, Ambassador V. Žugić. Invitation to the briefing “Transforming the country: Ukraine on the path of reforms”, to be held on 24 March 2017.
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    23 March 2017
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  • 64th Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council
    Security Dialogue: Military Aspects of Cyber-Security, presentations by: – Ambassador S. Ducaru, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO; – Rear Admiral S. Barber Lopez, Director, Communications and Information Systems at the European Union Military Staff; – Colonel B. Vile, Deputy Director of the Joint Cyber Center of the United States European Command.
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    22 March 2017
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  • 1137th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Nikola Poposki. Report by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Dr. Halil Yurdakul Yigitgüden. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1246 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (Russian Federation, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Canada, interpretative statement 3; Ukraine, interpretative statement 4; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 5). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Three years of Russia’s attempted annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Recent developments affecting relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Ukraine. Neo-Nazism in Latvia. Human rights defenders Ms. E. Urlaeva and Mr. A. Farmonov in Uzbekistan. Constitutional reform in Kazakhstan.
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    16 March 2017
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  • 1136th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Presentations by Ms. Hanna Herbst, Deputy Editor, Vice Austria, and Ms. Teresa Havlicek, Online Editor, Wienerin.at, on the safety of female journalists online. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatović. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1245 on the dates and venue of the 2017 OSCE Mediterranean Conference. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March 2017. Rights of refugee children along migration routes to Europe. Closing of the so-called crossing points in the occupied Abkhazia region of Georgia. Need for substantive negotiations aimed at the settlement of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Political situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Call for the release of Mr. M. Huseynov in Azerbaijan. Hate crimes in the United States of America. Need to implement the agreements reached at the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits. Parliamentary elections in Germany, to be held on 24 September 2017. Release of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 by the United States Department of State. Presidential election in Serbia, to be held on 2 April 2017.
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    9 March 2017
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  • 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.
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    2 March 2017
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