OSCE Quarterly Selections 1/2015 January – March 2015 The six following groups have been designed with view to help readers to navigate among the “official document” collections available on the web. Each group is chronologically organized and provides links to individual documents as well as their language variations (when available): I. OSCE PERIODICALS AND PUBLICATIONS. II. DECISIONS, CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS AND JOURNALS OF THE DAY yielded by regular OSCE negotiating and decision making bodies (such as plenary meetings of the Permanent Council and the Forum for Security Co-operation). III. SELECTED STATEMENTS, INTERVENTIONS, REGULAR REPORTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS made by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and High Officials representing OSCE structures, institutions and field activities. Statements and contributions made by national delegations during regular plenary meetings are grouped according to the negotiating body they were delivered at. These groups are available on the web accordingly: PC at www.osce.org/pc/109624 and FSC at www.osce.org/fsc/109625 IV. CONSOLIDATED SUMMARIES, REPORTS AND AGENDAS (non-consensus) released by/at various OSCE meetings, events, conferences, seminars and workshops. V. ELECTION OBSERVATION REPORTS prepared by various types of election missions, as well as statements or invitations concerning election observation in participating States. VI. SELECTED INTEREST AND REFERENCE DOCUMENTS relating to events or activities within the three OSCE dimensions (some of which may have taken place in the past few months or last year). OSCE Documentation Centre in Prague Nám. Pod Kaštany 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic [email protected] | tel: +420-224 186 450 | fax: +420-224 186 440 www.osce.org | www.osce.org/secretariat/prague | http://www.osce.org/resources/126378 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AIAM — Annual Implementation Assessment Meeting OCEEA — Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and ASRC — Annual Security Review Conference Environmental Activities ATU — Action against Terrorism Unit ODIHR — Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights CiO — Chairperson-in-Office OM — OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk COMMS — Communication and Media Relations Section OM Moldova — OSCE Mission to Moldova CPC — Conflict Prevention Center OM Montenegro — OSCE Mission to Montenegro CTHB — Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating OM Serbia — OSCE Mission to Serbia Trafficking in Human Beings OM Skopje — OSCE Mission to Skopje DHR — Department of Human Resources OMBiH — OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina EAM — Election Assessment Mission OMiK — OSCE Mission in Kosovo EEF — Economic and Environmental Forum OPA — OSCE Presence in Albania EET — Election Expert Team OPCU — OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine EOM — Election Observation Mission OSG — Office of the Secretary General EST — Election Support Team PA — Parliamentary Assembly EXTCOOP — External Co-operation PACE — Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe FoM — [Representative on] Freedom of the Media PC — Permanent Council FSC — Forum for Security Co-operation PCiB — Programme Coordinator in Baku FSC-PC — Joint FSC-PC Meeting PEC — Precinct Election Commission HCNM — High Commissioner on National Minorities PO in Astana — Programme Office in Astana HDIM — Human Dimension Implementation Meeting PRCiO — Personal Representative of the Chairperson- in-Office HDS — Human Dimension Seminar SEC — Secretariat HOC — Head of Centre SG — Secretary General HOM — Head of Mission SHDM — Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting IEOM — International Election Observation Mission SMM — OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine LEOM — Limited Election Observation Mission SPMU — Strategic Police Matters Unit MC — Ministerial Council SRCiO — Special Representative of the Chairperson- in-Office NAM — Needs Assessment Mission TNT — Transnational Threats Department Documentation acronyms (ID) OSCE working Languages Other languages JOUR — Journal of the day English French A number of publications may be released in another languages than the DEC — Decision German Italian six OSCE working languages. For technical reasons such publications are .DEL — issued by 1 or more delegation(s) Russian Spanish not included in this list. They can be found at www.osce.org/resources/ .DOC — document of particular importance publications .GAL — substantive or general nature .INF — basic information Document ID Reference System Policy document identification and distribution follows a set of registry values, some or all of which will form the document identification block appearing on the upper right corner of distributed documents. Main category: Capital letters denoting the nature of the document and referring to the main OSCE body to which it is to be submitted or from which it originates (PC, FSC, MC, SEC, ODIHR) Subcategory: Capital letters referring to meetings of bodies working under the authority of the main OSCE bodies (PC.ACMF, PC.SHDM, FSC.AIAM, etc.) Subgroup: Capital letters indicating the type of the document type (such as field reports, journals, etc. also see acronyms listed above) Suffixes may be added, where necessary, in order to indicate modifications of the text (Rev — Revision; Corr — Correction; Add — Addendum). I. OSCE PUBLICATIONS AND PERIODICALS No. Document type/Originator Title/Description OSCE ID or ISBN URL 1 Factsheet/SEC OSCE Activities to Counter Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism. The OSCE has developed an overall awareness-raising and capacity- http://www.osce.org/ building programme on Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead secretariat/144741 to Terrorism, which promotes a multi-dimensional approach and encourages multi- stakeholder collaboration. 2 Book/ODIHR Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities. The purpose ISBN 978-92- of these guidelines is to ensure that those involved in drafting and applying legislation 9234-902-8 in the area of the freedom of religion or belief, including civil society representatives, have at their disposal a benchmark document containing minimum international standards in the area of recognition of religious or belief communities. The document does not seek to challenge established agreements between states and religious or http://www.osce.org/ belief communities but, rather, to delineate the legal framework that would ensure that odihr/139046 communities wishing to do so have a fair opportunity to be granted legal personality, and that the criteria established are applied in a non-discriminatory manner. This document elaborates on the issues of registration and recognition of religious and belief organizations, and supplements section II.F on “Laws governing registration of religious/belief organizations” of the 2004 Guidelines. The 2004 Guidelines do, however, remain valid in their entirety. 3 Factsheet/ODIHR ODIHR and Roma and Sinti Issues. Factsheet explaining the work of the OSCE/ http://www.osce.org/ ODIHR in promoting the human rights of Roma and Sinti and their integration in odihr/102598 society. 4 Factsheet/OMiK OSCE Mission in Kosovo. The OSCE Mission in Kosovo promotes human rights, good governance and the safety of all people living in Kosovo by monitoring and supporting http://www.osce.org/ the work of local institutions. The Mission, established in 1999, is the OSCE’s largest kosovo/143996 field operation. 5 Book/OM Serbia General Characteristics of Substandard Roma Settlements in Serbia and a Proposal ISBN 978-86- for Further Development Initiatives for the Improvement of the Living Conditions 6383-022-6 of the Roma Community. This publication resulted from the mapping of substandard Roma settlements in Serbia, for the purpose of creating a Geographic Information http://www.osce.org/ System (GIS) for monitoring the living conditions in them and planning future serbia/159711 upgrading programmes at the national level. The publication gives an overview of general characteristics of all the substandard Roma settlements in Serbia, such as size, spatial distribution, quality of infrastructure, existence of urban plans, access to public services and land ownership. 6 Factsheet/SMM OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine: The Facts (as of 23 March 2015). http://www.osce.org/ukraine- smm/116879 II. DECISIONS AND OTHER CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS & JOURNALS No. Date Venue/Place Originator Document type – Title (Description) OSCE ID URL 7 15 January Vienna PC JOURNAL of the 1033rd Special Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council PC.JOUR/1033 (Address by the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, H.E. Ivica Dačić; Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation; Situation in Ukraine and violations of the Minsk agreements by the Ukrainian authorities; Abduction and illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens by the http://www.osce.org/pc/135256 Russian Federation). - STATEMENT by the delegation of Finland on the parliamentary elections in Annex 1 Finland, to be held on 19 April. - STATEMENT by the delegation of Estonia on the parliamentary elections in Annex 2 Estonia, to be held on 1 March. 8 20 January Vienna FSC JOURNAL of the 776th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation FSC.JOUR/782 (Opening Statement of the Mongolian FSC Chairmanship by Lundeg Purevsuren, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia; Situation in and around Ukraine). http://www.osce.org/fsc/135746