Statement by the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU on the death penalty in the United States of America

Prior to taking up the agenda, the Chairperson expressed condolences to the United States of America in connection with the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three staff members in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September 2012. Address by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. Sergi Kapanadze. Address by the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking Countries, Mr. Ramil Hasanov. Report by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth. Response by the Delegation of Hungary to a statement made by the United States of America at the 923rd meeting of the Permanent Council on the situation of members of the Roma community in participating States of the OSCE. Manifestations of aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism in participating States of the OSCE. Death penalty in the United States of America. Situation in Belarus. Freedom of assembly in the United States of America. Report on the OSCE ambassadorial visit to Yerevan and Baku from 6 to 11 September 2012. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States of America. Parliamentary elections to be held in Romania on 9 December 2012.