862nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Permanent Council Decision No. 999 on the recommendation to reappoint Ambassador Janez Lenarčič as Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (interpretative statement by the Delegation of Canada, also on behalf of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, attached). Sentencing of Mr. A. Sannikov and media freedom in Belarus. International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, 17 May 2011. Shooting Incident close to the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line. Fundamental freedoms in Azerbaijan. Moscow Mechanism fact-finding mission to Belarus (statements by the Delegation of the Czech Republic, also on behalf of a group of states, and by the Delegation of Belarus annexed).