1279th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Review of OSCE Co-operation with OSCE Asian Partners for Co-Operation. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violation of freedom of expression by Internet platforms of the United States of America. Twelve years since the start of full-scale military aggression against Georgia by the Russian Federation. Eighty-first anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War. Attacks on freedom of opinion and expression and media freedom in Belarus. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed on 30 August 2020. Poisoning of Mr. A. Navalny (Germany, Annex 1). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1375 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE Observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Russian Federation, interpretative statement 1; Ukraine, interpretative statement 2; Germany-European Union, interpretative statement 3; United Kingdom, interpretative statement 4; United States of America, interpretative statement 5; Canada, interpretative statement 6). Parliamentary elections in Montenegro, held on 30 August 2020.
