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November 2017 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the November 2017 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
1166th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Address by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also Focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions; and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism. Report by the OSCE Representative to the Latvian-Russian Joint Commission on Military Pensioners. Update by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik. Report by the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1273 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1274 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1275 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1276 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1277 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1278 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Presence in Albania. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1279 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1280 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (Estonia-European Union, interpretative statement 1; United States of America, interpretative statement 2; Ukraine, interpretative statement 3; Turkey, interpretative statement 4; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 5). The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1281 on the revision of the 2017 Unified Budget. “5+2” discussions on the Transdniestrian settlement process, held in Vienna on 27 and 28 November 2017. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on 25 November 2017. Amendments to the legislation affecting freedom of expression in the Russian Federation. The verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the case of Mr. Jadranko Prlić, Mr. Bruno Stojić, Mr. Slobodan Praljak, Mr. Milivoj Petković, Mr. Valentin Ćorić and Mr. Berislav Pušić. Eighty-fifth anniversary of the Holodomor.
67th Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council
Security dialogue: assessment of the structured dialogue in view of the Ministerial Council (Spain, Annex). Presentation of the Letter from the Chairperson of the Forum for Security Co-operation to the Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria, Chairperson of the Twenty-fourth meeting of the Ministerial Council of the OSCE.
Report by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Bernd Borchardt. Update on OSCE Migration-Related Activities. Report by the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, Mr. Filippo Lombardi. Report by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Ambassador Vuk Žugić. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1272 on amending OSCE Financial Regulations. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Glorification of Nazism. The verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the case of Mr. Ratko Mladić. National Dignity and Freedom Day, observed in Ukraine on 21 November 2017. International Conference on Security and Sustainable Development in Central Asia under the auspices of the United Nations “Central Asia: Shared Past and Common Future, Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Mutual Prosperity”, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 10 and 11 November 2017. Resolution marking the twentieth anniversary in 2018 of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.
Address by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, H.E. Nils Muižnieks. Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Michael Scanlan. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1271 on forwarding of a draft agenda to the Ministerial Council. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Situation of LGBTI persons in the Russian Federation. Latvian draft law on the status of participants in the Second World War. Municipal elections in Georgia, held on 21 October and 12 November 2017. Presidential elections in Cyprus, to be held on 28 January 2018.
Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Harlem Désir. Address by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group. Address by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the Conflict Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. Report by Head of the High-Level Planning Group, Colonel Hans Lampalzer. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Situation of LGBTI persons in Tajikistan. Inadmissibility of the glorification of Nazism in Latvia.
Address by the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva International Discussions. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1269 on the revision of the 2017 Unified Budget for the Programme Office in Dushanbe. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1270 on the timetable of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (Estonia-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. United Nations International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, being observed on 2 November. Release of human rights defenders in Turkey. Situation of LGBTI persons in Tajikistan. Intersex awareness day, observed on 26 October. Participation of persons affiliated with terrorism in the second Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) on “The Role of Free Media in the Comprehensive Approach to Security”, being held on 2 and 3 November 2017. Municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, held on 15 and 29 October 2017. Rule of law and democracy in Spain (Spain, Annex). 2017 OSCE Mediterranean Conference on “Large Movements of Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities”, held in Palermo, Italy, on 24 and 25 October 2017.