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September 2020 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the September 2020 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1282nd Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Update by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the Conflict Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Turkey, Annex 1; Azerbaijan, Annex; Armenia, Annex 3).
Report by the Chief Observer of the OSCE Observer Mission at two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border, Ambassador György Varga. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1377 on the dates and venue of the 2020 OSCE Asian Conference. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1378 on the agenda, timetable and organizational modalities of the 2020 OSCE Asian Conference. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Recent developments in Belarus. Presidential election in the Republic of Moldova, to be held on 1 November 2020. Invoking the Moscow Mechanism in relation to serious human rights violations in Belarus (Germany, also on behalf of Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia and Spain, Annex). Economic normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.
1280th Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1376 on the 2020 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Germany-European Union, attachment 1; Switzerland, interpretative statement 2; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4; Sweden, also on behalf of Poland, interpretative statement 5; United Kingdom, interpretative statement 6; Canada, interpretative statement 7; Turkey, interpretative statement 8; Armenia, interpretative statement 9).
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.