920th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, expressed condolences to the Russian Federation in connection with the recent floods in Krasnodar, Russian Federation, and a bus crash that occurred in Ukraine on 7 July 2012. Prior to taking up the agenda on Monday, 16 July 2012, the Chairperson, on behalf of the Permanent Council, welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Germany to the OSCE, Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking. Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek. Financial Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2011 and the Report of the External Auditor. Annual Report of the Audit Committee. Permanent Council Decision No. 1043 on the Financial Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2011 and the Report of the External Auditor. “Presidential elections” in Nagorno-Karabakh, to be held on 19 July 2012. Human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus. Investigations into hate crimes in Germany. Death penalty in the United States of America. Draft amendments to legislation on NGOs in the Russian Federation. Seventeenth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Parliamentary elections in Georgia, to be held in October 2012. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Parliamentary elections in Belarus, to be held on 23 September 2012. Global Counterterrorism Forum – High-Level Conference on Victims of Terrorism, held in Madrid on 9 and 10 July 2012 (Spain, Annex). Resolution on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council at its twentieth session, held on 5 July 2012.