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June 2017 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the June 2017 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1151st Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1254 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Federation, interpretative statement 2; Canada, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4; Turkey, interpretative statement 5; Ukraine, interpretative statement, see attachment 6 to the decision).
Report by the outgoing OSCE Secretary General, Mr. Lamberto Zannier. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1253 on the agenda and organizational modalities of the 2017 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Freedom of peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Rule of law and human rights defenders in Turkey. Concerns about a restrictive civil society law in Hungary. Detention by Azerbaijan of Armenian citizen Mr. Z. Karapetyan. Final Report of the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Referendum Observation Mission to observe the Constitutional Referendum held in Turkey on 16 April 2017. Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, to be held on 15 October 2017. Seventy-sixth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, observed on 22 June 2017.
Address by the Secretary General of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM, Mr. Altai Efendiev. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Ambassador John MacGregor. Presentation of the 2018 Programme Outline by the Secretary General. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. New government in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Situation of LGBTI persons in Chechnya. Criminal charges brought against Russian human rights defender Ms. V. Cherevatenko. Abduction and arrest of the Azerbaijani journalist Mr. A. Mukhtarli. Systematic violations of international law and OSCE principles and commitments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Surveillance of journalists in the United States of America. Withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Social and economic rights of the people of Artsakh.
Address by a Representative of the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Security and Multilateral Issues of the Czech Republic, Mr. Ivo Šrámek. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1251 on the Programme Office in Dushanbe (Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; Tajikistan, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1252 on the approval of the 2017 Unified Budget (Chairperson, Annex 1; Malta-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Kazakhstan, interpretative statement 3; France, interpretative statement 4; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 5; Austria, interpretative statement 6). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violations of the linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia. Murder of Mr. D. Popkov. Continued reports of arrests, unlawful detention, torture and killing of homosexual men by the Chechen authorities. International Children’s Day, observed on 1 June 2017. Participation of the Secretary General in the 2017 OSCE Youth Conference, held in Málaga, Spain, on 25 and 26 May 2017 (Spain, Annex 2).