August 2017 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

Inaugural remarks by the Secretary General, Mr. Thomas Greminger. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu (United Kingdom, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Spain, Annex 2). Adoption through a silence procedure of Permanent Council Decision No. 1266 on the topic and dates of the Human Dimension Seminar in Warsaw. Adoption through a silence procedure of Permanent Council Decision No. 1267 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2017 Human Dimension Seminar. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed on 30 August. Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. Linguistic discrimination in Latvia. Violations of freedom of the media in Estonia. Recent hate-related violence in the United States of America. Neo-Nazism and the tragedy of Charlottesville, United States of America. Legislative developments in Moldova. Arrest of Mr. K. Serebrennikov, Art Director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. Freedom of the media and the safety of journalists in the United States of America and in the Member States of the European Union. Persecution of journalists in Ukraine. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the OSCE, Ambassador P. McDonagh. Presidential election in Slovenia, to be held on 22 October 2017.