1148th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Address by a Representative of the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Security and Multilateral Issues of the Czech Republic, Mr. Ivo Šrámek. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1251 on the Programme Office in Dushanbe (Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Tajikistan, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1252 on the approval of the 2017 Unified Budget (Chairperson, Annex 1; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 3; France, interpretative statement 4; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 5; Austria, interpretative statement 6). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Murder of Mr. D. Popkov. Continued reports of arrests, unlawful detention, torture and killing of homosexual men by the Chechen authorities. International Children’s Day, observed on 1 June 2017. Participation of the Secretary General in the 2017 OSCE Youth Conference, held in Málaga, Spain, on 25 and 26 May 2017 (Spain, Annex 2).