July 2021 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

Presentation by the Secretary General of the Annual Progress Report on the Implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Eequality. OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation with a special focus on "Strengthening Good Governance and Combating Corruption". The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1409 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (Ukraine, interpretative statement 1; Slovenia-European Union, interpretative statement 2; Canada, interpretative statement 3; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 4; United Kingdom, interpretative statement 5; United States of America, interpretative statement 6). Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Deteriorating situation in Ukraine and continued non-implementation by the Ukrainian authorities of the Minsk agreements. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters (Armenia, Annex 1). Seventh anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014. High-level international conference "Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity – Challenges and Opportunities", held in Tashkent on 15 and 16 July 2021. Parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, to be held on 8 and 9 October 2021 (Czech Republic, Annex 3). Commemoration of the terrorist attack in Norway on 22 July 2011.

Security Dialogue: OSCE’s role and commitments to prevent and combat terrorism in all its forms – trends and challenges: – Presentation by Mr. V. Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism; – Presentation by Mr. H. Aghasaryan, National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia; – Presentation by Mr. M. Norell, Adjunct Scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Senior Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy, Sweden; – Presentation by Mr. É. Denécé, Director of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies (Turkey, Annex 1, Annex 2; Armenia, Annex 3, Annex 4; France, Annex 5). Financial contribution to the Information Management and Reporting System (iMARS) project for collecting, processing and reporting on exchanged military information (Slovenia, Annex 6). Trinational contact event to be conducted from 5 to 11 September 2021 (Lithuania, also on behalf of Estonia and Latvia, Annex 7).