Statement by the Delegation of the United States on the appointment of Mr. Michael Georg Link as Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

The Chairperson, Greece-European Union, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Serbia extended condolences to Afghanistan in connection with the landslide on 2 May 2014 in Badakhshan Province. Address by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova, H.E. Natalia Gherman. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton. Presentation of the 2015 Programme Outline by the Secretary General. Current security challenges in the OSCE area and OSCE engagement with Ukraine. World Press Freedom Day, observed on 3 May 2014. The cases of Mr. R. Mirkadirov and of Mr. A. and Ms. L. Yunus in Azerbaijan. Situation of Roma in Ukraine. Sixty-ninth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. The death penalty in the United States of America. Permanent Council Decision No. 1121 on the agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2014 Human Dimension Seminar. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Announcement by the Chairperson-in-Office, in a letter issued on 7 May 2014 (see the annex to this journal), of the adoption through a silence procedure of Ministerial Council Decision No. 1/14, on the appointment of Mr. Michael Georg Link as Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (see MC.DEC/1/14, the text of which is appended to this journal).