Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America in response to the report by the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna

Address by the Minister of Women’s Affairs of Afghanistan, H.E. Dilbar Nazari. Report by the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Seventy-first anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people by the Soviet regime. International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, observed on 17 May 2015. Twenty-first anniversary of the ceasefire agreement. Situation in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Visit of the agents of the illegal separatist regime to France. International Day of Families, observed on 15 May 2015. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation entitled “Neo-Nazism: A Dangerous Threat to Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law” (SEC.DEL/279/15).