Thank you very much Mr Chair,

I am delivering this statement on behalf of the following participating states, members of the Informal Group of Friends on the Safety of Journalists: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and my own country Germany.

We welcome the Representative on Freedom of the Media Mr. Jan Braathu back to the Permanent Council and thank him for his second report since taking office almost one year ago.

Ambassador Braathu, we thank you for your dedicated work and your tireless efforts in a field central to our organization. You continue to remind us that there is no security without freedom of the media. Yet we note with great concern that media freedom and the safe

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