Journal of the 939th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, expressed condolences to Kazakhstan in connection with the plane crash that had occurred near Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 29 January 2013. Presentations by the Chairpersons of the Security Committee; the Economic and Environmental Committee; and the Human Dimension Committee. Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Russian Federation. Discrimination against Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area. Recent attacks on individuals of Armenian descent in Istanbul, Turkey. International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2013. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Death of Mr. M. Kampelman, former Ambassador of the United States of America to the CSCE.