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.