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November 2012 Plenary Meetings of the Permanent Council
This is a collection of documents of the November 2012 Permanent Council plenary meetings.
933rd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Address by the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, H.E. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. Report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatovic. Permanent Council Decision No. 1053 on the timetable and organizational modalities of the nineteenth meeting of the Ministerial Council (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Kyrgyzstan, also on behalf of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey, attached). Permanent Council Decision No. 1054 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. Permanent Council Decision No. 1055 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Baku. Permanent Council Decision No. 1056 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Presence in Albania. Permanent Council Decision No. 1057 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro. Permanent Council Decision No. 1058 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. Permanent Council Decision No. 1059 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek. Permanent Council Decision No. 1060 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Permanent Council Decision No. 1061 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Permanent Council Decision No. 1062 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The case of Mr. A. Byalyatski. New legislation on domestic non-governmental organizations in the Russian Federation. International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed on 25 November 2012, and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson informed the Permanent Council that the Chairperson-in-Office, in a letter issued on 21 November 2012 (Annex 1), had announced the adoption, through a silence procedure, of the Ministerial Council decision on the accession of Mongolia to the OSCE (see MC.DEC/2/12, interpretative statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation attached). Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Andorra, H.E. Gilbert Saboya Sunye. Report by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Annex 2). Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Parliamentary elections in San Marino, held on 11 November 2012. Third Conference of the European Border Dialogues, held in Chisinau on 20 and 21 November 2012. Presidential elections in Cyprus, to be held on 17 February 2013.
Report by the Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also Focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions; on Combating Anti-Semitism; on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims. Report by the Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre, Ambassador Adam Kobieracki. Presentation by the Head of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, Mr. Udo Burkholder. Permanent Council Decision No. 1052 on amending OSCE Staff Regulations. Decriminalization of defamation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, held on 28 October 2012. General elections in the United States of America, held on 6 November 2012.
Report by Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), on the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. Address by the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group. Report by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the Conflict Dealt with by the Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1050 on forwarding of a draft agenda to the Ministerial Council. Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1051 on the recommendation on the accession of Mongolia to the OSCE (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Spain attached). Elections in the United States of America, held on 6 November 2012. Demonstration by extremists in Moscow on 4 November 2012. Need for supplementary Unified Budget resources by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office.
Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, H.E. A. Hovakimian. Address by the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Discussions. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Ralf Breth (statement by the Delegation of Greece annexed). Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, held on 28 October 2012. The death penalty in the United States of America. Recent developments in the Russian Federation. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Proposal to amend the existing procedures related to the establishment of the order of statements for meetings of the Ministerial Council.