September 2022 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Addresses by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also Focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions; the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims; and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism. Moscow Mechanism invoked by 38 OSCE participating states in relation to particularly serious threats to the fulfilment of the provisions of the OSCE Human Dimension by the Russian Federation. Ongoing crimes by Ukraine against the civilian population with the support of a Western alliance of OSCE participating States. Aggression of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and Armenia with the direct involvement of Turkey and foreign terrorist fighters. Rise of neo-Nazism in some OSCE participating States. Implications of the European Union’s anti-Russian policy for the global efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Pre-planned act of military aggression by the Republic of Tajikistan against the Kyrgyz Republic. Continued provocative and aggressive military actions by the Kyrgyz Republic against the Republic of Tajikistan. Latest border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the associated ceasefire. Outcomes of the Samarkand Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 15 and 16 September 2022.

The escalation of military hostility at the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.