Report by the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir

Report by the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir. Report by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, Ambassador John MacGregor. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1368 on the extension of the deployment of OSCE observers to two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border (United States of America, interpretative statement 1; Croatia-European Union, interpretative statement 2; United Kingdom, interpretative statement 3; Ukraine, interpretative statement 4; Canada, interpretative statement 5; Russian Federation, interpretative statement 6). Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Violation of educational and linguistic rights of national minorities in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-Semitism in the OSCE region. The death penalty in the United States of America. Parliamentary elections in Serbia, to be held on 21 June 2020. Local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to be held on 4 October 2020.