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July 2020 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

This is a collection of documents of the July 2020 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
  • 1277th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Forty-Fifth Anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Financial Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 and the Report of the External Auditor. Annual Report of the Audit Committee. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1373 on the Financial Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 and the Report of the External Auditor. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1374 on the extension of the OSCE Information Security Enhancement Fund. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of human rights in the Baltic States. Persistent violation of the linguistic and educational rights of national minorities and other ethnic communities in Ukraine. Violence against the diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan in France, Sweden, Poland, the United States of America, the Netherlands and Belgium, and the need to implement obligations under international law and OSCE commitments (Azerbaijan, Annex 1). Promotion of hate crimes by Azerbaijan in the OSCE participating States (Armenia, Annex 2). Turkey’s aggressive policy and military posturing as a destabilizing factor in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Annex 3; Turkey, Annex 4; Azerbaijan, Annex 5). Human dimension violations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Passing of human rights defender Mr. Azimjan Askarov. World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, observed on 30 July 2020. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Latvia to the OSCE, Ambassador J. Zlamets. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Canada to the OSCE, Ambassador N. Cayer.
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    30 July 2020
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  • 1276th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, H.E. Mr. Miltiadis Varvitsiotis. Report of the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Clemens Koja. Presentation of the Annual Progress Report on the Implementation of the OSCE Gender Action Plan by Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Officer in Charge in Absence of the Secretary General. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1372 on the dates and agenda of the 2020 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea (Lithuania, Annex 1). Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. National Press Day in Azerbaijan, observed on 22 July 2020. Latest developments in Belarus in the context of the upcoming presidential election, to be held on 9 August 2020. Situation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation. Resumption of federal executions in the United States of America. Attacks on Russian journalists in the United States of America. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the OSCE, Ambassador P. Huynen. Presidential election in Moldova, to be held on 1 November 2020. Local elections in Ukraine, to be held on 25 October 2020 (Ukraine, Annex 2).
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    23 July 2020
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  • 1275th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Mr. Robert Rydberg. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Armed attack by Armenia against Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan, Annex 1). Military offensive by Azerbaijan on the north-eastern part of the State border of Armenia (Armenia, Annex 2; Azerbaijan, Annex 3). Violence along the Armenia-Azerbaijan international border. Violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Russian Federation. Wounding and illegal detention of a Georgian citizen by Russian occupation forces. Sixth anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014. Farewell remarks by the outgoing OSCE Secretary General, Mr. Thomas Greminger (Germany-European Union, Annex 4; Russian Federation, Annex 5; Italy, Annex 6; Austria, Annex 7).
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    16 July 2020
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  • 78th Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council
    Russian Federation (Annex 1). Security Dialogue: Hybrid Threats and Modern Warfare: – Presentation by Mr. O. Lytvynenko, Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukraine; – Presentation by Mr. M. Rühle, Head of the Hybrid Challenges and Energy Security Section, Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO International Staff; – Presentation by Ms. I. Žukauskienė, Counsellor, Cyber Security and Information Technology Policy Group, Ministry of National Defence, Lithuania (United States of America, Annex 2; Canada, Annex 3; United Kingdom, Annex 4).
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    15 July 2020
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  • 1274th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Grau. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Yaşar Halit Çevik. Racism and police violence in the United States of America. Recent sentencing of human rights defenders in Turkey. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Extension of the appointments of the Secretary General and of three heads of institution (Azerbaijan, Annex). Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, to be held on 4 October 2020. The United Kingdom’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020.
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    9 July 2020
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  • 1273rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Harlem Désir. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Neo-Nazism in the Czech Republic. The death penalty in the United States of America. Recent developments in Belarus in the context of the upcoming presidential elections. Trial of journalist Ms. Svetlana Prokopyeva in the Russian Federation. Constitutional plebiscite in the Russian Federation. Parliamentary elections in Montenegro, to be held on 30 August 2020. Release of the 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report by the United States Department of State. Parliamentary elections in Mongolia, held on 24 June 2020. Joint proposal for a draft declaration on solidarity and co-operation in the face of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    2 July 2020
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