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February 2018 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council

This is a collection of documents of the February 2018 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
  • 68th Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council
    Security dialogue: “SSG/R in the context of the OSCE – examples from participating states and the OSCE’s way ahead” – Presentation by the Secretary General, Ambassador Thomas Greminger; – Presentation by the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); – Presentation by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia; – Presentation by Ambassador V. Norov, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan; – Presentation by Mr. A. Zouev, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Co-Chair of the UN Inter-Agency SSR Task Force; – Presentation by Ambassador M. Mlynár, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the United Nations in New York. Training course on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, launched online on 29 January 2018: FSC Co-ordinator on Matters Relating to UNSCR 1325 (Italy, Annex).
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    14 February 2018
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  • 1176th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu (France, also on behalf of several delegations, Annex 1; Spain, Annex 2). Report by the Chief Observer of the OSCE Observer Mission at two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian Border, Ambassador György Varga. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. The case of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair Mr. T. Kılıҫ, and recent detentions in Turkey. Violations of the rights of minorities in the European Union. Racism and police violence in the United States of America. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1287 on the use of cash surplus for strengthening the infrastructure of the OSCE. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1288 on approval of the 2018 Unified Budget (Bulgaria-European Union, interpretative statement 1; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 2; France, interpretative statement 3; United States of America, interpretative statement 4; Austria, interpretative statement 5; Holy See, interpretative statement 6).
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    15 February 2018
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  • 1175th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    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, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, observed on 6 February 2018. Sami People’s Day, observed on 6 February 2018. Early presidential elections in Azerbaijan, to be held on 11 April 2018.
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    8 February 2018
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  • 1174th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
    Address by the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Dr. Michele Galizia. Presentations by the Chairpersons of the Security Committee; the Economic and Environmental Committee; and the Human Dimension Committee. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Media legislation in Moldova. Recent developments in the occupied territories of Georgia. Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Human rights violations concerning the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Russian Federation. Human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.
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    1 February 2018
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