OSCE PA's årlige session i Baku: Praktik og procedurer

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OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling
Til:
Dato:
Delegationens medlemmer
6. maj 2014
Praktik og procedurer i forbindelse med den årlige session i Baku fra 28.
juni til 2. juli 2014
Hermed omdeles Practical and Procedural Information samt udkast til rappor-
ter og resolutionstekster fra forsamlingens tre komitéer til brug for OSCE’s
Parlamentariske Forsamlings (OSCE PA) årlige session i Baku den 28. juni -
2. juli 2014.
Underskiftsskemaer til brug for eventuelle ændringsforslag omdeles så snart
de modtages fra OSCE PA sekretariatet.
Som det fremgår af papiret, er der en række krav og tidsfrister, som skal
overholdes, hvis man ønsker at fremsætte ændringsforslag eller forslag til
supplerende resolutioner (”supplementary items”). Krav og tidsfrister er op-
summeret i nedenstående skema.
Forslag Krav Frist for modtagelse i
Folketingets sekretariat
Frist for modtagelse i
OSCE PA´s sekretariat
Forslag til supplerende
resolutionsudkast
(supplementary items)
Skal som minimum være
underskrevet af 20 med-
lemmer af OSCA PA fra
mindst 4 forskellige lande
Onsdag den 21. maj 2014 Lørdag den 24. maj 2014
Kompromisforslag til
supplerende resolutions-
udkast (compromise draft
resolutions)
Skal som minimum være
underskrevet af forslags-
stillerne og af 10 af
underskriverne på de
supplerende resolutions-
udkast
Onsdag den 11. juni 2014 Lørdag den 14. juni 2014
Ændringsforslag til
rapportørernes resoluti-
onsudkast (amendments
to draft resolutions)
Skal som minimum være
underskrevet af 5 med-
lemmer af OSCA PA fra
mindst 2 forskellige lande
Onsdag den 11. juni 2014 Lørdag den 14. juni 2014
Ændringsforslag til
supplerende resolutions-
udkast (amendments to
supplementary items)
Skal som minimum være
underskrevet af 5 med-
lemmer af OSCA PA fra
mindst 2 forskellige lande
Onsdag den 18. juni 2014 Lørdag den 21. juni 2014
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Delegationssekretariatet vil koordinere og videreformidle forslag til OSCE PA’s Interna-
tionale Sekretariat. Af praktiske hensyn vil den interne tidsfrist for aflevering af forslag
til delegationens sekretariat være tirsdagen inden de tidspunkter, hvor OSCE PA´s
Internationale Sekretariat skal have dem i hænde.
Forslag til supplerende resolutioner og ændringsforslag fordeles alene elektronisk.
Erfaringerne fra tidligere år viser, at der i tiden frem til de anførte tidsfrister kan forven-
tes et stort antal henvendelser fra diverse forslagsstillere med anmodning om støtte fra
den danske delegation.
Såfremt man selv ønsker at fremsætte forslag, anbefales det at være ude i god tid før
udløbet af tidsfristerne. Maj - juni er typisk en travl tid i de fleste parlamenter, og det
kan derfor være forbundet med visse praktiske problemer at få indsamlet det nødven-
dige antal underskrifter.
Samtidig skal det også bemærkes, at som noget nyt er det kun muligt maksimalt at
behandle 15 supplementary items på mødet i Baku. Hvis flere end 15 supplementary
items har fået det fornødne antal underskrifter, vil Standing Committee med et flertal
på 2/3 beslutte, hvilke supplementary items, der skal behandles på den årlige session.
Af de vedlagte informationer er reglerne for valg til posterne i forsamlingen desuden
beskrevet, ligesom det fremgår, hvilket poster der er valg til på sessionen.
I Baku skal der således vælges:
 1 Præsident for en periode af 1 år
 3 vicepræsidenter for en periode af 3 år og en vicepræsident for en
periode af 2 år
 1 kasserer
 Formand, næstformand og rapportør for hver af de tre komitéer
Med venlig hilsen
Eva Esmarch,
delegationssekretær


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REPORT
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
AND ENVIRONMENT
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Mr. Roger Williams
United Kingdom
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
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REPORT FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Rapporteur: Mr. Roger Williams (United Kingdom)
The 40th
anniversary of the pioneering Helsinki Final Act is approaching rapidly, which provides
the opportunity to reflect on and fulfil further progress towards the commitments undertaken in the
Act. The agreement, signed in 1975, was unique in broadening the definition of security by
including the economic-environmental and the human dimensions to the existing external security
of states. These three dimensions are fundamental to the maintenance of overall stability and
security in Europe. This year leading up to the milestone gives us time to reaffirm commitments
and to develop further action lines for the OSCE.
The Helsinki Final Act is characterised and guided primarily by the notion of co-operation, which
continues to resonate in the 21st
century. Over the years it has become apparent how important the
economic-environmental dimension is to the promise of European co-operation and security. The
importance of this dimension has increased and become more relevant as we face the challenges of
financial crises, energy issues, pollution, food security, water security and climate change.
Ensuring Food and Water Security
Despite States realising that these challenges facing the world today can only be properly addressed
through co-operation and accepting that some important strides have been made towards closer co-
operation to protect the natural environment, the international community has too often failed to
address various environmental crises sufficiently. The “Helsinki +40” theme stresses the need for
the OSCE to readjust its overall Security Strategy to the new security environment. Beyond
anything else, Helsinki +40 stresses the need for greater transparency, accountability and consensus
to prevail in the work that the OSCE must seek to promote. Individual countries’ efforts benefit
from the synergy of working together; stability and security depend upon the identification of
common causes and pursuing them. The Helsinki +40 process would benefit largely from a
renewed emphasis on the environmental commitments of participating States. As pointed out by my
predecessor last year, today’s environmental challenges should be viewed as the existential security
threats that they are, and should be addressed with the same diligence as conflict resolution and
prevention.
Water, energy, and food issues – which are closely inter-related – have significant implications for
security and stability within States as well as across borders. At the same time, these issues can be
further explored as opportunities for conflict prevention and confidence-building. In preparation for
the 40th
anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, we should consider what role the OSCE has to play
in addressing the water-energy-food nexus from a stability and security perspective.
The availability and affordability of life’s necessities are the keys to prosperous and cohesive
communities. States are facing increasing challenges to ensure that food and water are available and
affordable for their citizens. These challenges have arisen due to the increased price volatility of
foodstuffs, caused by severe weather events and climate change, and the increase of the global
population. It is estimated that by 2050 the global population will have reached a total of 9.6 billion.
According to a report produced by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the UN agencies and the
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World Bank, the world will need 70 per cent more food, as measured by calories, to feed the
enlarged global population.1
Possible Solutions
A planned response to these problems will necessitate that States work together across a wide range
of policies. This will result in greater resilience, compared to States investing on their own. There is
an obvious role for the OSCE and our committee to facilitate that co-operation.
The broad aim will be to promote “sustainable intensification” as outlined in the Foresight report
“The Future of Food and Farming” produced by Professor Sir John Beddington. The term
“sustainable intensification” implies producing more food with fewer inputs, while protecting
natural capital, such as water, biodiversity and ecosystem services. There are multiple approaches to
addressing food security, and much can be done today with existing knowledge. It is vital that food
security initiatives include all areas of science and technology that can make a valuable impact.
Food security must be achieved through improvements in the way people produce and consume,
while taking into account the environment. A significant increase in agricultural and fisheries
production could be achieved by the adoption of existing best practice. The OSCE can facilitate that
technology and knowledge transfer, particularly by using mobile phone and web-based
technologies. Also, new research on crop and animal production needs to be undertaken to produce
new varieties, improve husbandry techniques, and to optimise water usage in agriculture. OSCE
countries can co-operate to ensure that no duplication takes place of research effort and that synergy
is maximised.
There is a need for more young people to engage in agriculture, and we need to take steps to
encourage young people to study agricultural science. OSCE countries could achieve this through
facilitating transnational courses in agricultural science. Furthermore, the role of women in
agriculture is often relegated to menial and unprofitable activities. They often suffer from lack of
education and lack of funds to invest in new technologies and inputs, such as fertilizers. Small
holdings often lack modern farming methods and lead to poverty and deprivation. Extension
services must be set up to bring more productive systems to small holdings and particularly women.
Small holdings often suffer from a lack of secure land tenure. If investment is to be made, it is
important to establish secure land tenure.
There is little doubt that the scale of global food waste is substantial. It has been estimated that as
much as 30 per cent of all food grown worldwide may be lost or wasted before and after it reaches
the consumer.2
The OSCE can lead in the reduction of waste in food chains. Improvement in post-
harvest management can make a great difference in preventing damage from rain, insect pests and
high ambient temperatures. Often cheap, but effective, on-farm storage can make a real difference
together with good transport to markets. Improved processing and manufacture can add value as
well as prolong shelf life. In some prosperous countries much waste takes place at the retail and
consumer level. Further work needs to be done to educate the consumer to reduce waste through
smarter purchasing.
1
Report by World Resources Institute, “Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings”, by Tim Searchinger,
Craig Hanson, and others, December 2013, http://www.wri.org/publication/creating-sustainable-food-future-interim-
findings.
2
Foresight report “Future of Food and Farming, Challenges and choices for global sustainability”, Government office
of Science, London, 2011.
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With the increased competition for, and scarcity of, inputs into food production, water is the most
pressing, with significant effects on regional productivity likely to occur by 2030. Demand for
water is increasing for personal use, agricultural irrigation and manufacturing. The days of cheap
water that can be used without limit are over. Crop varieties must be found that can thrive and
produce high yields with lower water inputs. Water must be treated and reused and recycled.
Sewage that has in the past been thought of as waste must be recycled to produce energy, clean
water and important nutrients. In addition, excessive water abstraction can have very negative
effects on ecosystems, but also on communities and States that depend on the same water catchment
areas. The OSCE has already intervened to settle disputes between States, and this work continues.
Additionally, it is essential that there is a better understanding of the greenhouse gas emissions in
different food production systems to find ways to reduce them. The emissions of greenhouse gasses
are higher in meat and dairy production and as global prosperity increases, so does the demand for
these foods. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to a changing climate will
become imperative. Climate knows no boundaries or frontiers. What we do in our own country
affects every other country on earth. Every State has to take responsibility, but that determination is
made much more powerful through co-operation. Energy security is essential to allow communities
and nations to achieve economic growth and stability. Building confidence will enable trade in
fuels, involving both governments and the private sector. Green or sustainable energy generation
will also grow as a proportion of the energy mix and will create jobs while reducing carbon
emissions. The OSCE has a role to play in sharing these developing technologies, which will help
tackle this problem.
Supporting sustainable development in mountainous regions is also of concern to this Committee.
Mountain areas occupy 24 per cent of the total land area of the earth, with a 12 per cent population
living in this area. It is important to remember that mountains provide the lion’s share of resources
to livelihood and mankind, such as fresh water, vital biodiversity resources, food resources, forests
and minerals. The growing industrial development of mountainous areas and the impact of global
warming increases the pressure on the fragile ecology of the area. This leads to a sharp increase in
natural and man-made disasters, diseases and impoverishment of the population and also its
migration to the more densely populated areas. It is therefore important that governments,
international and financial institutions are encouraged to support the sustainable development in
mountainous regions.
Tackling Climate Change
Typhoon Haiyan, which brought massive devastation to the Philippines, and other natural disasters
are reminders of how critical the climate change situation is.3
In his message to the OSCE’s 20th
Ministerial Council in Kyiv, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised the vital partnership
between the UN and the OSCE, especially in long-term issues, such as combating climate change.4
Climate change affects agricultural conditions and the life of people in general. A study on the
Dniester basin vulnerability to climate change predicts a temperature rise by 2050, and drier
summers with less flow, but also more frequent and heavier rains in the basin due to the changes in
precipitation. World leaders have convened every year since 1995 to assess progress in dealing with
climate change, but with the exception of agreeing to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which is now
virtually defunct, they have consistently failed to agree to meaningful standards to limit their
greenhouse gas emissions.
3
http://www.cop19.gov.pl/latest-news/items/the-opening-of-cop19-in-warsaw-in-the-shade-of-philippines-super-
typhoon-haiyan.
4
http://www.un.org/news/dh/pdf/english/2013/05122013.pdf.
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These changing climatic conditions will affect crop growth and livestock performance, the
availability of water, fisheries and aquaculture yields, and the functioning of ecosystem services in
all regions.5
Extreme weather events are also likely to become more severe and more frequent,
increasing volatility in production and prices. Significant climate change is inevitable, and
investment in food system adaptation to climate change is a priority.
As the Istanbul Declaration sets out, recognizing that these environmental challenges, such as
climate change, require world leaders to make compromises at an international level, and that in this
regard the Helsinki +40 process can serve as a powerful reminder of the spirit of co-operation that
brought together East and West in the context of the Cold War.
The Importance of Science and Technology
Investment in science and technology reaps great dividends in promoting economic growth for
nations and improved employment and living standards for individuals. During the recent periods of
austerity, many nations have been able to maintain or increase public investment in science, which
shortened and lightened the recession. It is important for States to adopt fiscal systems that
encourage private companies to invest in research and development.
Great added value can be achieved when Universities, public sector research facilities and private
enterprises co-ordinate and co-operate in research. Good examples of increased co-ordination are
the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany, and other States are following suit. International co-operation
is also very productive. Research into life sciences can deliver advances and improvements in
medicine and food production across the globe and increasing research into technology lies at the
heart of making manufacturing, transport and energy more efficient and emit less carbon.
A determination to enhance green technology must be at the core of research, which will not only
reduce climate change, but also enhance employment and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
The use of scientific research to deliver practical improvements in manufacturing, communications,
medicine, agriculture, and service industries is vital for sustainable economic progress. Technology
transfer lies at the heart of this process and must receive sufficient investment to maximise the
return on scientific advances.
Continued Co-operation in the Economic Sphere
In the economic sphere we can see that there is a continued need for co-operation. Moderate
improvement in the global economy has been patchy and even where the recovery has been
greatest, it remains fragile. As we see throughout all our 57 participating States, many citizens still
suffer from the global recession. Austerity has had a detrimental effect on people’s lives through
unemployment, falling living standards and a reduction in public services. Austerity must not be
seen as an end in itself, but as a way to achieve a more sustainable growing economy benefiting all
its citizens. The main cause of the recession was the failure of large national and international
financial institutions through poor governance. States must be encouraged to adopt regulations that
limit risk based speculation, yet enables financial bodies to provide capital for investment to restart
national economies through improvements in infrastructure and long term projects. The OSCE has a
5
Foresight report “Future of Food and Farming, Challenges and choices for global sustainability”, Government office
of Science, London, 2011.
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role to play in co-ordinating national governments to move away from retrenchment into solid
investments, which will provide the foundations for a sound improvement in the global economy.
Economic migration and migration due to environmental change are growing factors in maintaining
stability and security. Migration can provide opportunities for people to improve their lives while
building the economies of countries that receive them. Unplanned and excessive movements can
cause tension and adversely affect the provision of public services.
The OSCE needs to work on migration management to increase the benefits and reduce the
potential negative implications. The OSCE must work with Member States on a strategy to ensure
that all citizens regardless of gender, race or family background have access to a full range of
education, training and health support. It is only through social mobility that the full potential of
individuals and states can be achieved.
Economic migration, particularly from North Africa, has put a great burden on Southern European
States. It has also resulted in the loss of a large number of lives, as vessels used for this activity are
often unseaworthy. The OSCE should work with Southern European countries and our partners in
North Africa to protect migrants and provide facilities for them if they arrive in Europe.
Trade is often disrupted by man-made and natural disasters. Borders need to be secure, but also
robust and resilient to enable trade to continue during periods of heightened threat levels and alerts.
This would enable the national economies to maintain cross-border activity. Natural disasters also
have the effect of disrupting economic growth, which hinders trade and has harmful consequence
not only in the State involved, but also its trading partners. Resources to deal with such emergencies
could be coordinated between States, because their successful resolution would benefit all trading
partners.
Furthermore, work must be done to encourage participating States to translate the 2012 Dublin
Ministerial Declaration on Strengthening Good Governance and Combating Corruption, Money
Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism into better and more effective policies, legal
frameworks and regulations at state and regional level.
Finally, trade unions play an essential role of representation, negotiation and resolution. They are a
contemporary achievement of advanced societies that has allowed collective bargaining of working
conditions and a peaceful channelling of eventual conflicts in this field. The balance between
workers’ interests and those of companies has given Europe half a century of social peace,
prosperity, and economic growth. For these reasons, the generalisation of trade unions, their legal
protection and the legal acknowledgement of their privileged position as stakeholders, should have
a legal basis in OSCE countries as part of their external and internal security systems.
Conclusion
The second dimension covers so much ground and includes every citizen. It is through trade,
industry, science, and technology that co-operation in the OSCE area most tangibly manifests itself
every day. During this year we must work together to find concrete actions that will enable the
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OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
PRACTICAL & PROCEDURAL
INFORMATION
(as of May 6, 2014)
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CONTENTS
Overview……………………………………………………………… 2
General Committees…………………………………………….. 2
Plenary Session………………………………………………….. 2
List of Speakers for the General Debate …………...…………. 2
Election of the Officers of the Assembly……………………………. 3 - 5
President of the Parliamentary Assembly……………………… 3
Vice-Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly………………. 4
Treasurer………………………………………………………… 4
Election of the General Committee Officers…………………… 4
Voting…………………………………………………………….. 5
Voting cards……………………………………………………… 5
Documents…………………………………………………………….. 5 - 9
Supplementary Items……………………………………………. 5 - 6
Amendments……………………………………………………... 7 - 8
Compromise Amendments……………………………………… 8
Questions of Urgency…………………………………………… 8
Validation of Signatures………………………………………… 8 - 9
Submission of Documents………………………………………. 9
Officers of the Assembly…………………………………………….. 10
Important dates……………………………………………………… 11
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This document seeks to give a brief and basic guide to the procedures of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly and the practical arrangements in view of the 23rd
Annual Session to be held in Baku
from 28 June to 2 July 2014. This document is not exhaustive, and should be read in conjunction
with the Rules of Procedure (29 July 2013).
OVERVIEW
General Committees
The Rapporteur of each General Committee will present a report which will form the basis of the
debate in the General Committee. The text of the report is the responsibility of the Rapporteur, and
should be prepared or approved by him or her.
The Rapporteur will also present a draft resolution based on the report. The draft resolution, but not
the report, is subject to amendment by Members of the Assembly in accordance with the provisions
of Rule 22, paragraph 1 of the Rules of Procedure. Amendments should, therefore, relate only to the
subjects addressed by the Rapporteur in the Draft Resolution.
Plenary Session
The draft Final Document to be debated and considered at the Plenary Session on Wednesday, 2 July
2014 will be, in principle, a composite of the three resolutions of the three General Committees. In
the event of incompatibilities between the texts adopted by the General Committees, a Drafting
Committee composed of representatives of the three General Committees and others appointed by the
President will seek to reconcile them (Rule 39, paragraph 3).
List of Speakers for General Debate
Members wishing to speak in the general debate in the Plenary Session on Tuesday, 1 July 2014
should enter their names in a register provided for that purpose in the Table Office not later than one
hour before the opening of the sitting. In all cases, the Chair shall determine the order in which
Members shall be called to speak. Unless the Chair decides to grant additional time, no Member may
speak for more than five minutes or for no more than one minute on a point of order (Rule 27,
paragraph 7). The Chair may close the list when the number of speakers multiplied by five minutes
exceeds the time available for the session. Alternatively, the Chair may reduce the time limit for each
speaker to less than five minutes in order to allow more Members to participate in the debate (Rule
27, paragraph 2)
Points of order shall only be raised by Members of the Assembly (Rule 27, paragraph 8).
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ELECTIONS OF OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY
(Current list of Officers of the Assembly can be found on page 10)
Election of the President and Vice-Presidents will be held in Plenary on the last day of the Annual
Session, 2 July 2014. These Officers will be elected by secret ballot (Rule 5, paragraphs 1-4). In
considering proposed candidates the Assembly shall take into account the national composition of the
Assembly (Rule 4, paragraph 9).
Under Rule 4, paragraph 5, candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President must be
sponsored in writing by twenty-five (25) or more Members of the Assembly. Nomination papers
should be handed in at the Table Office no later than 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 1 July 2014. In
accordance with Rule 4, paragraph 5 the Bureau will verify the candidatures prior to submission to
the Assembly.
The election will be held on Wednesday, 2 July 2014 between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Details
regarding distribution of ballot papers and the organisation of the election will be announced during
the Baku Session. Proxy voting is not allowed. Each voting member shall cast their ballot in person.
In accordance with Rule 31, paragraph 3, “A Member who has an unavoidable obligation to leave the
Annual Session before the day of the election of a President, Vice-President and a Treasurer has the
right to vote earlier provided that he or she has notified in writing the Assembly President
accordingly. Early voting shall start only when all candidates have been duly nominated.”
In the event of a second ballot, any members who have left the Annual Session will be unable to vote.
In accordance with Rule 32, paragraph 4, the Chair will appoint three tellers to supervise the elections
and count the ballots. All duly appointed candidates or those that represent them have the right to
monitor voting procedure, the counting of the ballot papers and the tabulation of the votes in all
polling places.
If the number of the candidates nominated is the same or less than the number of positions to be
filled, the candidates shall be declared elected by acclamation (Rule 5, paragraph 4).
President of the Parliamentary Assembly
The President will be elected for a period of one year, until the closure of the 2015 Annual Session
(Rule 4, paragraph 6). The President may be re-elected only once to the same office (Rule 5,
paragraph 6).
In accordance with Rule 5, paragraph 1 “The President shall be elected by secret ballot and each
Member entitled to vote may cast one vote. If, on the first ballot, no candidate has obtained an
absolute majority of the votes cast, a second ballot shall be held between the two candidates who
obtain the most votes in the first ballot. The candidate who, on the second ballot, obtains the most
votes shall be elected. In the event of a tie, the issue shall be decided by lot.”
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Vice-Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly
In Baku there will be elections for three Vice-Presidents who will serve for three years until the
end of the 2017 Annual Session.
 Vice-President Walburga HABSBURG DOUGLAS (Sweden): elected in Belgrade (2011) for
a three-year mandate is eligible for re-election.
 Vice-President Emin ONEN (Turkey): elected in Istanbul in 2013 for a one-year mandate is
eligible for re-election.
 Vice-President Ilkka KANERVA (Finland): elected in Istanbul in 2013 for a one-year
mandate is eligible for re-election.
The Vice-Presidents may be re-elected once to the same office (Rule 5, paragraph 6). A Vice-
President who has served less than two three year terms is eligible for re-election (Rule 5, paragraph
7). The Assembly will vote on all three positions of Vice-President simultaneously. The three
candidates obtaining the greatest number of votes will serve for three years until the end of the 2017
Annual Session (Rule 4, paragraph 7).
Treasurer
The Treasurer shall hold office from the close of the Annual Session in which he or she is elected to
the close of the second Annual Session thereafter (Rule 4, paragraph 8). The Treasurer may be re-
elected twice to the same office (Rule 5, paragraph 6).
 Mr. Roberto BATTELLI (Slovenia): elected in Vilnius in 2009, re-elected in Belgrade in 2011
and re-elected in Istanbul in 2013 for an additional two-year term. His mandate will conclude
in 2015. Therefore, there will not be an election of the Treasurer in Baku.
Election of General Committee Officers
General Committees shall elect a Chair, a Vice-Chair and a General Rapporteur, who are the Officers
of General Committees, at the close of the sitting at each Annual Session for the following year (Rule
36, paragraph 5). Candidates shall be sponsored in writing. Unless the General Committee decides
otherwise, they shall be nominated before the opening of the last scheduled meeting of the General
Committee during the Annual Session.
The General Committee Officers shall be elected by a majority of votes cast in a secret ballot. If no
candidate has obtained a majority, a second ballot shall be held between the two candidates having
obtained the highest number of votes in the first ballot. In the event of a tie, the issue shall be decided
by lot. If there is only one candidate nominated for an office the candidate shall be declared elected
by acclamation. In the event of a vacancy arising during the course of the year, the President may
appoint a substitute (Rule 36, paragraph 5).
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Voting
Under Rule 32, paragraph 1, the Assembly shall vote by a show of hands except in cases where a roll-
call vote or secret ballot is required. Only affirmative and negative votes shall count in calculating the
number of votes cast. The number of abstentions shall be recorded.
Under Rule 32, paragraph 5, the Chair may with the consent of the Assembly put paragraphs or
resolutions, or a number of paragraphs thereof to the vote en bloc, but any member may request a
separate vote on each or a particular paragraph.
Where the Assembly's accounts show that a participating State country has not made its due
contribution for a period of 9 months, Members of its delegation shall not be allowed to vote until the
contribution has been received (Rule 41, paragraph 5).
Voting Cards
Each delegation will receive colour-coded voting cards for the three General Committees and for the
plenaries.
The voting cards for the three General Committees will be distributed according to Rule 36,
paragraphs 2 and 4. The OSCE PA International Secretariat will distribute the voting cards divided
equally, to the extent possible, among the General Committees. The difference between voting cards
distributed for each committee shall not exceed one.
DOCUMENTS
Please pay special attention to the Rules of Procedure and the document deadlines (page 11)
regarding the submission of Supplementary Items, Amendments, Compromise Supplementary
Items and Questions of Urgency, as changes were made to the Rules of Procedure at the Annual
Session in 2013.
Supplementary Items
Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure states:
1. The agenda of the Annual Session may be supplemented by an item or a motion on any matter
within the competence of the OSCE, which does not relate directly to subjects proposed by
the General Rapporteurs to the three General Committees. Such a supplementary item shall be
in the form of a draft resolution with signatures of at least twenty Members representing at
least four different countries. In addition, a Member of the Assembly cannot be a co-
sponsor of more than four supplementary items. The first signatory of a supplementary
item will be its principal sponsor. A supplementary item must be received by the
Secretariat after the General Rapporteurs have submitted their reports, but at least 35
days before the opening of the first plenary session. The Standing Committee may place
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only fifteen supplementary items on the agenda of the Annual Session. The Standing
Committee shall decide by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast whether to include a
supplementary item on the agenda of the Annual Session. The Standing Committee shall then
decide by a majority of votes cast whether to refer a supplementary item to the competent
Committee or to submit it to the plenary.
2. If more than one supplementary item is presented on the same issue, the President may ask the
principal sponsors of the draft resolutions on the same issue to hold consultations in order to
present a compromise draft resolution. If such a compromise draft resolution is received at the
Secretariat at least fourteen days before the opening of the first plenary session with
signatures of the principal sponsors and at least ten signatories of each of the two or more
draft resolutions in question, it shall be presented to the Annual Session as a supplementary
item and all other draft resolutions on the same issue shall fall. The principal sponsor of the
draft resolution which was received first shall be the principal sponsor of the compromise
draft resolution. If there is no agreement on a compromise draft resolution, the draft resolution
which was received first shall be presented to the Annual Session and others on the same issue
shall fall.
3. Supplementary Items which obtain the level of support required by Rule 21.1 and have
no amendments meeting the requirements of Rule 22.1, but which are not placed on the
agenda of the Annual Session by the Standing Committee under Rule 21.1, shall be
referred directly to the plenary or competent Committee. The principal sponsor of such
an item may speak for one minute in support, another member may speak for one minute
against, and immediately thereafter it shall be put to the vote without further debate. If carried
the item shall be included in the final document as an annex. Such items shall not be
amendable.
4. Supplementary items which have been debated at the previous Annual Session shall not
be considered eligible for debate. In special circumstances, where an item is deemed
urgent and topical the President in consultation with the Vice Presidents may place it on the
agenda of the Annual Session for debate. The President’s decision shall be binding upon the
Assembly and not debatable.
Supplementary items must be received at the International Secretariat in Copenhagen not later
than SATURDAY 24 MAY 2014.
Compromise Supplementary Items must be received at the International Secretariat in
Copenhagen not later than on SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2014.
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Amendments
Paragraph 1 of Rule 22 of the Rules of Procedure states:
Amendments to the draft resolutions presented by the General Rapporteurs or to
supplementary items shall be submitted in writing and signed by at least five Members
representing at least two participating States. Amendments to the draft resolutions prepared
by the General Rapporteurs shall be received at the Secretariat with the required signatures at
least fourteen days before the opening of the first plenary session. Amendments to
supplementary items shall be received at the Secretariat with the required signatures at least
seven days before the opening of the first plenary session. The first signatory of an
amendment will be its principal sponsor.
The forms for submitting amendments to supplementary items will be forwarded to you
shortly.
Amendments to the three General Committee Draft Resolutions must be received at the
International Secretariat in Copenhagen not later than on SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2014.
Amendments to Supplementary Items must be received at the International Secretariat in
Copenhagen not later than on SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2014.
Members are also reminded of certain other provisions of Rule 22 (Amendments) of the Rules of
Procedure:
 The Amendments will be considered in the same Committee in which the resolution, or
supplementary item, to which the Amendment relates, is considered. The Chair of the
Committee shall decide whether the Amendment is in order. If the Chair decides that the
Amendment is not in order because it is not relevant to the Committee’s area of competence
or is not a compromise amendment in accordance with Rule 23, any sponsor of that
Amendment may refer the matter to the President. The President will determine which
Committee is competent to deal with the Amendment;
 Each Amendment may only relate to one paragraph;
 If two or more Amendments relate to the same paragraph, they will be voted upon according
to the following order:
- Amendments to delete the entire paragraph;
- Amendments to delete part of the paragraph;
- Amendments that modify the paragraph;
- Additional Amendments that insert a new paragraph.
 The Chair may group the Amendments for discussion.
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 Manuscript or oral amendments may only be considered if there is unanimous
agreement by the members of the Committee or plenary present.
Delegations are particularly requested not to present Amendments which incorporate or re-order large
sections of the Rapporteur’s original draft resolution. It is necessary in order to allow proper debate
that any Amendments be addressed specifically to individual paragraphs of the Rapporteur’s text.
Amendments should not take the form of alternative resolutions.
Compromise Amendments
Paragraph 1 of Rule 23 of the Rules of Procedure states:
A compromise amendment may be submitted in writing and signed by at least ten Members,
representing at least three participating States, including at least two principal sponsors of
amendments already submitted in accordance with Rule 22 on the same issue to the same draft
resolution. Any compromise amendment shall be submitted no later than 10 a.m. on the
day before the Assembly or relevant Committee starts consideration of amendments.
Questions of Urgency
Rule 26 of the Rules of Procedure states:
1. Questions of urgency may be placed on the agenda of the Assembly at any time on the
proposal of the Standing Committee, or in the absence of a meeting of the Standing
Committee, on the proposal of the Bureau. Such questions of urgency must be pertinent to the
OSCE process and relate to an event which has taken place or come to public knowledge
less than twenty-four days before the opening of the first plenary session.
2. Such question of urgency shall be in a form of a draft resolution and it shall be signed by at
least twenty-five Members representing at least ten countries. The first signatory of the
draft resolution shall be the principal sponsor of the question of urgency.
3. In the event of the Standing Committee or the Bureau deciding not to recommend the
inclusion of such an item on the agenda, the proposers shall have the right to appeal in writing
to the Assembly, which may decide by a majority of two thirds of the Members of the
Assembly to place the proposal on the agenda.
Validation of Signatures:
Rule 24 of the Rules of Procedure states:
1. The signatures of Members of the Assembly who signed a supplementary item are valid
provided they register for and attend the Annual Session and provided they signed no
more than four supplementary items in accordance with Rule 21.1.
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2. The signatures of Members of the Assembly who signed an amendment are valid provided
they register for and attend the Annual Session.
3. In the event that a Member of the Assembly who registered for but cannot attend the Annual
Session due to unavoidable obligations, his or her signatures shall remain valid provided that
the President of the Assembly is notified accordingly by the Head of a Delegation.
Registration, according to established practice, is accomplished by being physically present at the
Annual Session.
Submission of Documents
For the submission of documents (Supplementary Items, Amendments, etc.), please ONLY use the
following:
Email: baku@oscepa.dk
Fax: +45 33 37 80 30
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OFFICERS OF THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU
Name Country Position Term
Mr. Ranko Krivokapic
Montenegro
President To end 2014 Session
Ms. Walburga Habsburg Douglas Sweden Vice-President To end 2014 Session
Mr. Emin Onen Turkey Vice-President To end 2014 Session
Mr. Ilkka Kanerva Finland Vice-President To end 2014 Session
Mr. George Tsereteli Georgia Vice-President To end 2015 Session
Mr. Robert B. Aderholt USA Vice-President To end 2015 Session
Ms. Doris Barnett Germany Vice-President To end 2015 Session
Ms. Vilija Aleknaite Abramikiene Lithuania Vice-President To end 2016 Session
Ms. Isabel Pozuelo Spain Vice-President To end 2016 Session
Mr. Alain Neri France Vice-President To end 2016 Session
Mr. Roberto Battelli Slovenia Treasurer To end 2015 Session
Vacant President Emeritus
OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEES
I. GENERAL COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Mr. Makis Voridis Greece Chair
Mr. Azay Guliyev Azerbaijan Vice-Chair
Ms. Pia Kauma Finland Rapporteur
II. GENERAL COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
ENVIRONMENT
Ms. Roza Aknazarova Kyrgyzstan Chair
Ms. Nilza Sena Portugal Vice-Chair
Mr. Roger Williams United Kingdom Rapporteur
III. GENERAL COMMITTEE ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN
QUESTIONS
Ms. Isabel Santos Portugal Chair
Mr. Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu Turkey Vice-Chair
Ms. Gordana Comic Serbia Rapporteur
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DOCUMENT DEADLINES 2014
Supplementary Items Saturday, May 24, 2014
Compromise Supplementary Items Saturday, June 14, 2014
Amendments to General Committee
Draft Resolutions Saturday, June 14, 2014
Amendments to Supplementary Items Saturday, June 21, 2014


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DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Pia Kauma
Finland
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE
ON POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Rapporteur: Ms. Pia Kauma (Finland)
1. Recalling the historic role of the Helsinki Final Act signed in 1975, which contains key
commitments on politico-military, economic and human rights issues and which established
fundamental principles governing the behaviour of States towards their citizens and towards
each other,
2. Recalling the Charter of Paris for a New Europe adopted in 1990, which led to its acquiring
permanent institutions and operational capabilities, including the Parliamentary Assembly of the
OSCE,
3. Reconfirming the Organization’s comprehensive approach to security based on trust and
transparency in the politico-military field, committed to by the participating States, and
confirmed by the OSCE Istanbul Summit in 1999 and the Astana Summit in 2010,
4. Welcoming the Declaration on furthering the Helsinki +40 process adopted at the Ministerial
Council in December 2013 in Kyiv which reaffirmed the efforts by all participating States to
provide a strong and continuous political impetus to advancing the work towards realizing the
vision of a security community and reaffirmed the commitment by all participating States to the
concept of comprehensive, co-operative, equal and indivisible security,
5. Referring to the ongoing negotiations to update and modernize the Vienna Document on
Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in order to increase openness and transparency in
view of the next Annual Implementation Discussion to take place in July 2014, and the
resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE underlining the need to proceed with
this work,
6. Expressing concern about the situation in Ukraine and Crimea, emphasizing the role of the
OSCE in engaging all parties in a constructive dialogue, monitoring and supporting the
implementation of all OSCE principles and commitments on the ground, preventing further
escalation of the crisis and promoting a diplomatic process towards a peaceful resolution to the
conflict,
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
7. Stresses the importance of adapting the arrangements for conventional arms control to today’s
politico-military reality, building upon the existing foundation of the Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe, the Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna Document as well as the Code
of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security;
8. Calls for strong commitment to the Vienna Document, adopted in 1990 and updated several
times, being one of the most important politically binding documents of the politico-military
dimension of OSCE, building upon the 1975 Helsinki Final Act’s provisions for early
notification of military exercises that involve a certain number of military personnel;
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9. Expresses its support for the next Annual Implementation Discussion on updating and
modernizing the Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures to take
place in July 2014 with a view to increasing predictability, openness and transparency in the
exchange of information annually on their armed forces concerning the military organisation by
increasing opportunities for verification activity, strengthening risk reduction mechanisms, and
enlarging the scope of confidence and security-building measures;
10. Recalls the need to consider the more than 20 VD Plus proposals when updating the Vienna
Document, covering the expansion of information exchange on military matters, the notification
for military exercises, maritime arms control procedures, monitoring of rapid deployment forces
and large force transfers, and the improvement of the effectiveness of inspections and evaluation
visits;
11. Encourages bilateral agreements in the spirit of the Vienna Document which promote
confidence-building measures;
12. Reiterates the importance of strong and effective parliamentary oversight of military forces as
the fundamental basis for democratic control of armed forces that should be based on the
principles of constitutionality, legality and accountability;
13. Encourages participating States to adopt an appropriate legislative basis for the democratic
control of the armed forces based on the principles of constitutionality, legality and
accountability;
14. Stresses the need to balance between new threats, like cyber warfare and terrorism, and the
prospect of conventional military operations, when updating and finding new substance to the
Vienna Document, noting that since the adoption of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces
in Europe, the number of Treaty-Limited Equipment has been reduced by more than 110,000
units, indicating the importance of traditional arms control mechanisms;
15. Calls for a comprehensive assessment of cyber threats and their prevention, future co-ordination
with European Union’s cyber security strategy, and the creation of a reporting and classification
system to counter cyber warfare;
16. Acknowledges the need to take into account the development of technology and tactics when
updating the current treaties, reflecting the increasing emphasis on brigade-level operations and
the need for a comprehensive assessment of military capabilities and developing indicators that
focus on quality and performance instead of just quantity;
17. Calls for new measures limiting the illegal trade of small arms, which is prevalent in all conflict
areas and contribute to numerous casualties each year, including civilians;
18. Calls for an updated assessment on whether current rules of warfare are up-to-date when taking
into account new weapons systems that have been deployed in the past few years;
19. Acknowledges the role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, and urges
compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which aims to increase
equal participation of women and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and
promotion of peace and security;
20. Acknowledges that the geopolitical situation in different parts of the OSCE area varies widely
and that all actions by the OSCE with the goal of increasing security should accurately take into
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account local conditions in order to find long-term solutions that can be agreed upon by all
parties;
21. Acknowledges the role and participation of the local and regional authorities in post-conflict
rehabilitation scenarios;
22. Welcomes the active engagement of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship in the Ukrainian crisis and
the deployment of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine as well as the activities of the
OSCE executive structures and other relevant international actors operating in Ukraine with the
aim of reducing tensions, fostering stability and promoting a national dialogue;
23. Underlines the respect of the principles of the inviolability of frontiers and the territorial
integrity of participating States, as stated in the Helsinki Final Act;
24. Calls for a strong and more regulated legal framework for national referendums to avoid their
misuse, taking into account national constitutions and relevant international standards;
25. Expresses its support for the ongoing process of peaceful integration in Europe, which includes
co-operation in transnational organisations, increased freedom of movement for people and
goods and deepening economic ties which will increase stability and security in the area;
26. Reaffirms the need to continue to work towards a solution to the crisis in Syria, where violence
and human rights abuses continue amidst a humanitarian crisis, and strongly urges all parties to
commit to a peaceful resolution of the crisis and the establishment of a truly democratic state
where the rights and security of all ethnic groups are equally protected;
27. Welcomes the approaching 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act and the opportunity to
strengthen the role of the OSCE in increasing security, openness and transparency and moving
forward in the Helsinki +40 process;
28. Calls for the creation of a new system of arbitration within the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
in order to enhance co-operation and to prevent situations where participating States have
different interpretations of the meaning and details of current documents.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
on
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
[Set out text of Amendment here:]
Principal Sponsor:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in Capital
Letters
Country Signature
Co-sponsored by:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in Capital
Letters
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REPORT
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Pia Kauma
Finland
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
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REPORT FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Rapporteur: Ms. Pia Kauma (Finland)
Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the Vienna Document
The Vienna Document is one of the most important politically binding documents of the politico-
military dimension of OSCE. It encompasses the goals of the Helsinki Final Act Decalogue of 1975
and incorporates them into a politically binding document. The Helsinki Final Act principles created
the initial confidence- and security-building measures that would be elaborated upon, first in the
Stockholm Document (1986) and later in the first Vienna Document. The first document, Vienna
Document 1990, would have successors in Vienna Documents 1992, 1994, and 1999. All of the Vienna
Documents have sought to strengthen transparency and openness in the OSCE area.
The participating States exchange information annually on their military forces concerning the military
organization, manpower and major weapon and equipment systems. The information is provided to all
participating States by 15th
of December and is valid on January 1st
the next year. Apart from the
exchange of various kinds of information, other obligations to the signatories include Confidence- and
Security-Building Measures such as inspection and evaluations of military sites, areas, and exercises.
In the 2013 Istanbul Declaration, the OSCE PA underlined the need to proceed with the ongoing
discussions and negotiations in order to update and modernize the 1999 Vienna Document. It also
underlined the need for further updating the Vienna Document in order to create predictability by
increasing openness and transparency. The questions remain: should the thresholds at which States are
obliged to inform each other about their military exercises be lowered, should the opportunities for
verification activity be increased, the exchange of military information be modernized, risk reduction
mechanisms be strengthened, and the scope of confidence and security-building measures be enlarged?
The democratic control of armed forces refers to the norms and standards governing the relationship
between the armed forces and society in general. This definition includes the oversight of all types of
security forces in a given country. For this purpose, the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military
Aspects of Security was entered into force in January 1995. It both echoes and is in accordance with
the principles and commitments of the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris. The fundamental
basis for democratic control1
over one’s military is strong and effective parliamentary oversight, which
should be based on principles of constitutionality, legality and accountability. The role of parliaments
is to adopt an appropriate legislative basis from which to derive the necessary framework and
conditions.
The next Annual Implementation Discussion will take place in July 2014, and is seen as a milestone
event in light of the Code of Conduct’s 20th anniversary. Highlights of the year 2013 included the
translation of the Code into Arabic by Germany and Switzerland and a regional conference for the
Mediterranean region held in Malta in September. It was stated that the Code of Conduct remains a
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This should be interpreted as democratic oversight by the parliaments, entailing shared responsibility between the
legislative and the executive branches for the effectiveness of the military, police and security structures of a given state (as
defined in FSC.GAL/146/02/Corr.1).
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relevant and valuable document in the current political context. The League of Arab States displayed
genuine interest in the document.
In order for the exchange of information to be truly open and transparent in the spirit of the Vienna
Document, we must be able to count on the fact that the armed forces are truly subjected to the control
of the democratic process. It is hardly possible for the armed forces to be controlled this way if the rest
of the society is also lacking in freedom and democracy. Military spending must be decided solely by
the national parliaments without any kind of shortcuts or work-arounds. As a community of countries
committed to democracy, the OSCE places great emphasis on promoting democratic elections. The
commitments agreed upon by all OSCE participating States in the 1990 Copenhagen Document
emphasize fundamental principles that are central to a democratic tradition and can be summed up in
seven key words: universal, equal, fair, secret, free, transparent, and accountable. After all, the people
who in the end are tasked with carrying out the parliamentary control of armed forces must themselves
be elected according to truly democratic processes.
On the Future of the OSCE
The most important thing is to strengthen the common political will of all 57 participating States of the
OSCE. I truly hope that there is enough political will and ambition in this forum also in the future in
order for us to reform previous documents and to promote openness and transparency in the politico-
military dimension. The OSCE has the potential to reclaim its role as a constructive, transformative
force in the field of international relations and security policy.
The nature of security threats varies widely around the world and inside the OSCE area. The situation
in the Caucasus is completely different from Switzerland or Luxembourg, for example. Nevertheless,
consisting of 57 countries, the OSCE is the world’s largest regional security arrangement under
Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter. It brings together 57 participating States spanning the
globe from Vancouver to Vladivostok and 11 additional partner countries to discuss vital issues
affecting the OSCE area. Through its partners for co-operation, the OSCE can also influence events in
Asia and North Africa. Ensuring future commitment to previously agreed-upon documents continues to
be a critical objective.
Updating the Vienna Document and the future of Conventional Arms Control
Developing and finding new substance to the Vienna Document is one of the most important tasks
currently facing the Organization. The Document is related to the Treaty on Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe (CFE and adapted CFE) and the Open Skies Treaty.
The CFE consists of 5 different categories of key armaments and weapon systems that can be used for
large-scale offensive operations. We should in particular look back to our successes. The Code of
Conduct has proved itself useful in reforming armed forces, for example with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Although there have been doubts about the future of the CFE treaties, we should not forget that since
the adoption of CFE, the number of Treaty-Limited Equipment, or TLE, has been reduced by a
significant number – 118,000 units. Of these, more than 40,000 have been main battle tanks. And the
Open Skies has been generally seen as a success.
One particular challenge has been the way states interpret details in the treaties differently. Some
military maneuvers have not been reported since they have been conducted with local forces – and
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according to one interpretation, only troops transferred from other areas must be counted. In some
cases, forces not belonging to the direct control of the Ministry of Defence have also been deliberately
ignored. And there has not been consensus on whether all maritime and paramilitary forces, border
guard units, etc., should also be included in the limits.
Some countries have suggested that training units, logistics, and repairing installations and air transport
units should be included in the existing information exchange obligations. Some have also suggested
that the focus should be on smaller combat units, which would reflect the growing importance of
battalion-sized units in military actions.
In this regard, the Parliamentary Assembly should consider whether more statistical indicators could be
gathered about the adherence to the VD and whether there is a need for a new arbitration system that
could enhance co-operation and resolve situations where participating States have different
interpretations of the meaning and details of the documents.
In total, there are more than twenty so-called VD Plus proposals and other suggestions. To name a few:
expanding information exchange on military matters, the notification for military exercises, maritime
arms control procedures, monitoring of rapid deployment forces and large force transfers and the
improvement of the effectiveness of inspections and evaluation visits.
The Changing Geopolitical Situation and New Threats
We should remind ourselves about the geopolitical situation that created the need for these treaties and
how the situation has changed in the last few decades. Since the end of the Cold War, new threats have
emerged with new operational tactics and weapon systems. Terrorism, cyber warfare, unmanned aerial
vehicles and the way they can be used to conduct more limited operations are more relevant to modern
security policy, and demand new responses. The growing danger to privacy and human rights posed by
potential cyber attacks must be recognized. Future efforts could be co-ordinated with the EU’s cyber
security strategy, and there should be regular reporting and classification of attacks, should they occur.
As threats have changed, the quantitative assessments of troop and material counts do not carry the
same weight they used to. In an age when one can theoretically cripple an entire nation with a
successful cyber attack, simple counts of a country’s main battle tanks or other equipment are of little
value. Future treaties should increasingly focus also on parameters that measure quality and potential of
different elements of military force. Even small steps in this direction would be welcome.
The list of modern security issues is long and varied, and as said earlier, is not limited to what is
understood as traditional military warfare in the form of large-scale operations. Some additional issues
that must be addressed are: chemical and biological weapons, missile defence programs, conventional
long-range precision weapons, strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and issues of proliferation. The
role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and compliance for United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1325 should be carefully observed. New regional conflicts also pose additional
challenges for the OSCE.
Last year, the United Nations adopted the first treaty regulating international arms trade, which is an
important step forward and was fully supported by the OSCE PA in accordance with the Monaco
Declaration. The states that have ratified the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are prohibited from exporting
arms to countries that have human rights violations and that have been placed under UN arms embargo.
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Current Conflicts and the Road Ahead
The crisis in Ukraine and the unilateral annexation of Crimea by Russia has challenged the whole
international order and the sovereignty of independent states. As the UN General Assembly declared in
its measure adopted on the 27th
of March, the referendum held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
and the city of Sevastopol was not authorized by Ukraine and thus is not valid. The General Assembly
also stressed that the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders must
be respected. The active role taken by the Swiss Chairmanship in pursuing a diplomatic solution to the
crisis is welcomed. The OSCE can and should take a leading role as it has been considered the only
international body whose mediation could be accepted by all affected parties. The recent deployment of
an OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine represents a clear step forward in this regard.
Despite the challenges ahead of us, the OSCE has the potential to reclaim its role to increase security,
openness and transparency. As the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act is approaching, the
Organization needs to move forward in the Helsinki +40 process. This process is an opportunity to
strengthen mutual trust and confidence and improve co-operation among the participating States. We
hope to see substantial results over the coming year. We have a shared commitment to ensure that we
will live in a secure, peaceful world. How we achieve that goal depends solely on us and our common
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REPORT
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Gordana Comic
Serbia
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
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REPORT FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Rapporteur: Ms. Gordana Comic (Serbia)
Introduction
Next year, the OSCE will mark its 40th
anniversary. The Helsinki +40 process has been an
inclusive effort by participating States to provide strong and continuous political impetus to
advancing work towards a security community, and further strengthening our co-operation in the
OSCE. This initiative, supported by the Chairmanships of Ukraine (2013), Switzerland (2014)
and Serbia (2015), has been welcomed by all 57 participating States. Of course, we are deeply
concerned about regression in meeting human dimension commitments in entire regions of the
OSCE, as well as the most recent violation of the Helsinki Final Act by the Russian Federation’s
invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea, as well as lack of progress in frozen conflicts. All of this
undermines the raison d’etre of this important comprehensive security Organization and its
mandate to protect Eurasian security through co-operation, human rights and democracy.
At the core of the Helsinki Final Act, the participating States agreed to “respect human rights and
fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all
without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.” They recognized “the universal
significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for which is an essential factor
for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and
co-operation among themselves as among all States.” They have agreed to refrain from threat of
use of force, and respect for territorial integrity.1
In our resolution this year, the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian
Questions will focus on key human dimension issues such as rule of law, access to justice,
political prisoners, civil society engagement and OSCE human dimension reform, including our
human rights tools and field operations. In particular, we will also discuss issues of migration
management and the need to secure and protect the basic human rights of all migrants in the
OSCE area – regardless of their legal status.
Migration Management and Human Rights Protection
Migration management traditionally falls into what the OSCE considers the “second dimension” –
economic and environmental issues. This Committee in Baku will look at the issue from a Human
Dimension perspective: protection of migrants’ human rights, non-discrimination and supporting
OSCE countries, including those that host migrants and those which generate migratory flows due
to socio-economic issues and/or conflicts.
In this regard, the OSCE PA will review the situation concerning migrants from countries such as
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, who are hosted by the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan
and other participating States. The Committee will discuss the treatment of these migrants in host
countries, but also at the significant socio-economic impact these heavy migration flows have on
the countries of origin. Along with Moldova, Tajikistan tops global economic surveys of
remittance-dependent states. With regard to host countries, there are deep concerns regarding the
risk of human trafficking, respecting national labour regulations (when applied to migrants – both
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Helsinki Final Act, 1975.
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legal and illegal), but also serious non-discrimination issues against migrants of different race,
religion and cultural heritage. Asylum applications from sexual minorities have increased in
Europe – so our Committee will also discuss the treatment of the LGBT communities in the
countries of origin, generating asylum seekers in Europe and North America.
West of Vienna, the Committee will focus on issues of discrimination against migrants of all
kinds: asylum seekers and refugees, but also labour migrants. Particular attention will be paid to
protecting labour rights, integration and legalization, as well as migration burden-sharing within
the European Union states. The OSCE is built on principles of international co-operation. The
Committee will look at ways migrants contribute to host countries: both economically and
culturally through a diversity of views, cultures, religions, and traditions.
The OSCE must look at ways to ensure that overly restrictive migration management policies on
the rise in the West do not undermine human rights, including labour rights of migrants. In
particular, the Committee will look at women and children among migrants, who are at high risk
of falling victim to human trafficking for sexual exploitation, as well as exploitation for labour.
The OSCE will mark ten years since the Ministerial decision on gender equality. Regrettably, we
can see both inside the Organization and the geographical area it spans that progress toward
gender equality has stalled, and in some areas has begun to regress. This particularly affects
women in the West at times of financial crisis and austerity, and there is ample evidence of this in
the European Union. Participating States East of Vienna are impacted as countries in transition
struggle with heavy gender-based discrimination in society in general, but in the workplace in
particular. The OSCE has evidenced this in our election observation work, where candidates for
parliament, party leadership and government posts are rarely gender-balanced. At times of
hardship in transitioning, as well as established democracies, it is the women who bear the brunt
of the economic burden – often forced to leave the workplace and return to caring for the
household as equal pay for equal work remains a major issue across the OSCE area. Migrant
women are particularly affected, as uprooted families are especially vulnerable.
Treatment of migrants as a “threat” is unacceptable. The OSCE should work harder to
recommend national policies for more tolerant and understanding societies that appreciate the
contribution multi-culturalism can make to human development. Parliamentarians serve the
people of their constituencies (in many cases, this includes migrants – both refugees/asylum
seekers and economic migrants). Through the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, legislators should
work hard to deepen the understanding of what migrants give to host countries through diversity
and plurality of cultures, views and traditions. In particular, we should treat counter-terrorism
measures with caution to ensure we do not neglect to protect the basic human rights of those
accused. The OSCE should not allow policies to develop in participating States that undermine
access to justice of those accused, who are often migrants. Legislators have a particular
responsibility in this regard.
Detention facilities meant for processing migrants must be improved. This is connected to
burden-sharing of migration issues in Europe, in particular. Some OSCE participating States are
overwhelmed by migrants – some seeking better economic conditions, some fleeing persecution.
Treating both with dignity is significant to the future of Europe, and the OSCE area at large.
Wealthier nations in Europe should contribute more to migration management in the area.
Looking at developments East of Vienna, it is not likely that migration flows East-to-West will
reduce in volume in the coming years, and we need to look at new ways to preserve human
dignity in managing these migratory flows.
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At its Annual Session in Baku, the OSCE PA will also debate the rise of extremism and
xenophobia – this is an important topic when we discuss migration and non-discrimination issues.
Europe should lead by example in the OSCE area. Discrimination is an issue which concerns
everyone. As we have seen in previous global conflicts, discrimination against one particular
social group, such as migrants, or LGBT for example, has previously led to major global conflict,
including genocide. Given the important historical lessons on our Continent, the rise of any such
tendencies both East and West of Vienna should be treated with extreme caution.
Human Dimension Reform: Field Presences, Their Mandates and Our Operational
Response
The OSCE PA has consistently called for full and long-term mandates for OSCE field operations
– the flagships of our Organization. In particular, the Assembly has called for the re-opening of
the OSCE field operations in Belarus and Georgia. It is deeply regrettable that in Azerbaijan, the
mission has been downgraded to a Project Co-ordinator’s Office, which means it will have no
monitoring and reporting mandate. The Committee resolution calls on Ukraine to upgrade its
OSCE presence to a full-scale mission. The issue of field missions is linked to the over-reliance
of the OSCE on the consensus mechanism in its decision-making body – the Permanent Council.
The trend is not positive, and greatly reduces the effectiveness of our Organization.
Our Committee will again raise the issue that the one-country veto obstructs the work of this
Organization. We see this in regard to setting the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
agendas, field operations, key staffing positions and response to human rights crises in the OSCE
area. Examples of inadequate and/or delayed response to crisis, include Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and
Ukraine. In Ukraine, a large-scale OSCE monitoring mission has been deployed with a two-week
delay due to a one-country veto in the Permanent Council, with zero presence in or access to
Ukraine’s Crimea. This calls into question how far the OSCE has come in 40 years since the
Helsinki Final Act and whether this Organization can continue to exist in this framework. An
OSCE constituent put it best: “What is the point of the OSCE if the aggressor has a veto?”
Tools such as the Moscow Mechanism are heavily under-used by the OSCE. The Vienna
Document has been applied in a new way to the crisis in Ukraine, including attempts to apply to
Crimea – which have been met with heavy push-back from one participating State, leaving access
to the area an outstanding issue for our Organization. The OSCE guards human rights, democracy
and Eurasian security. In order for the OSCE’s ultimate goal – comprehensive security – to
remain relevant for the OSCE area, we must work hard to further develop such diplomatic human
rights tools and apply them more frequently – both East and West of Vienna.
Role of Civil Society and the OSCE
The OSCE’s Human Dimension reform is moving along, but the lack of progress regarding the
participation of civil society in the decision-making process is missing from the agenda. Several
proposals have been made by non-governmental organizations and coalitions, such as the Civic
Solidarity Platform.
The OSCE PA has repeatedly called for the OSCE Permanent Council to organize meetings with
regard to the violation of OSCE commitments in the Human Dimension, to conduct these
meetings in a way that is open to the public, the media and civil society representatives, we
cannot see any improvements in this regard. We do welcome the work of the Human Dimension
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Committee in Vienna, in this regard, as well as the strong emphasis that the 2014 Swiss
Chairmanship has placed on civil society engagement.
The Assembly has also called for a civil society advisory board within the OSCE PA – in order to
engage civil society in a consistent and constructive manner. While this issue remains on the
table, civil society has been present in recent OSCE PA meetings, including the Winter Meeting –
where it has become a tradition to invite guest speakers from among civil society to address the
parliamentarians, and engage in an open, transparent and constructive debate. The Assembly’s
Winter Meeting this year saw a record number of civil society representatives observing the
Meeting, engaging with diplomats and parliamentarians from across the OSCE area.
Rule of Law and Political Prisoners in the OSCE Area
As stated in the 1990 Copenhagen Document,2
all human beings should have access to a fair trial
and tribunal, which also applies to political activists and those accused of terrorist activities. The
1991 Moscow Document indicated that participating States committed themselves to treat all
persons deprived of their liberty with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the
human person and to respect the internationally recognized standards that relate to the
administration of justice and the human rights of detainees. Therefore, all participating States
should co-operate with international institutions regarding visits to all prisoners – including those
the international community considers to be incarcerated on political grounds.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has defined the term “political prisoner.”
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly supports this effort, and encourages its application to OSCE
participating States. Individuals and sometimes whole groups from among civil society, political
parties and human rights defenders languish in prisons without adequate access to justice. There
are political prisoners in many OSCE participating States – primarily East of Vienna, but there are
deep concerns about the prison in Guantanamo Bay, the use of extraordinary rendition – and what
lessons the West has drawn from these human rights violations. No justice system is perfect, but
the OSCE must strive to ever improve standards for rule of law and access to justice for all. This
Committee has heard testimonies over the years from former political prisoners, their relatives
and legal counsel, and we hope to continue this tradition – highlighting important human rights
issues by first-hand sources.
The OSCE has not developed binding standards in the field of prison conditions and the
systematic inspection of prisons is still limited. Austria recently ratified the Optional Protocol to
the UN Convention against Torture, and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, which provides for an international inspection system, while many others still have
not ratified this important protocol (Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Georgia,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway,
the Russian Federation, Slovakia, San Marino, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United
States and Uzbekistan).3
This issue also remains outstanding.
2
Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, Copenhagen,
29 June 1990.
3
United Nations, “Treaty Collection”, http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Treaties.aspx?id=4&subid=A&lang=en.
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Conclusion
As the OSCE looks to its 40-year anniversary, it is a time to look back and to look forward.
Continuous violations of the Helsinki Final Act and regression in meeting Human Dimension
commitments call into question the effectiveness of our Organization and with it – the future of
Eurasian comprehensive security. The Helsinki +40 processes should review the achievements
and the violations that were observed since the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, note the general trends,
make clear recommendations on further integrating human security into the overall agenda of the
OSCE and find more effective ways to ensure respect for States’ human rights commitments,
including follow-up on concrete human rights issues. The OSCE must not be afraid to cite States
– East and West – which violate the Organization’s core principles, and to cite cases which
highlight the level of human rights abuses in our area.
In particular, we must not forget the most vulnerable segments of the population, who are affected
by all the challenges that our Organization has failed to address. In this case, the Committee will
review the plight of migrants, especially migrant women in the OSCE area, and look at ways
parliamentarians can contribute to improve policies of non-discrimination and migration
management in our respective countries.


AS (14) DRS 3 E
Original: English
DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Gordana Comic
Serbia
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2013-14
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 37
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
Rapporteur: Ms. Gordana Comic (Serbia)
1. Welcoming the OSCE’s Helsinki +40 process as an opportunity to review the
implementation of Human Dimension Commitments, including addressing the regress in
whole regions of the OSCE with regard to basic freedoms, such as freedom of assembly,
freedom of the media, expression, democratic commitments, rule of law and non-
discrimination,
2. Recalling that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act addressed issues such as peaceful settlement
of disputes, refraining from the threat or use of force, respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief,
as well as other key human security commitments,
3. Welcoming the use of the Vienna Document, as applied in Ukraine to ensure an
operational response time by the Organization to human rights violations in a
participating State,
4. Deeply concerned that the OSCE’s field operations are continuously reduced in their
capacity to monitor and report on human rights issues, in particular in participating
States which demonstrate non-compliance with their human dimension commitments,
5. Welcoming the Swiss Chairmanship’s pledge in connection with Helsinki +40 to
continue reinforcing co-operation with civil society,
6. Recalling the 2013 OSCE PA Istanbul Declaration’s call for the OSCE and the OSCE
PA to create a civil society board, comprised of representatives of leading NGOs
working on OSCE issues,
7. Recalling the Istanbul Declaration’s affirmation that rule of law and independence of the
judiciary should be respected,
8. Deploring discrimination and hate crimes against labour migrants both East and West of
Vienna,
9. Expressing deep concern with regard to the rise of restrictive migration policies in many
countries in the OSCE area,
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
10. Endorses the adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of a
resolution confirming the definition of political prisoners;
11. Calls on OSCE participating States to ensure, through national legislation or through
legislative reform, if necessary, human dignity and security for all asylum seekers and
labour migrants;
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12. Reiterates its call for the safe and dignified return of all internally displaced persons to
their places of living, ensuring access to international humanitarian aid when needed,
with the goal of gradual rapprochement of the societies of Georgia and Abkhazia,
Georgia, and South Ossetia, Georgia;
13. Strongly condemns any acts of hate crime against migrants of any kind, and calls on
participating States to ensure that these crimes are fully investigated and victims
protected, regardless of their legal status in the host country, both East and West of
Vienna;
14. Encourages all participating States to follow Ukraine’s example in multi-lateral co-
operation in hosting the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission as an important tool to
monitor and report on human rights in a participating State;
15. Reiterates its call on all the OSCE participating States to fully comply with their
commitments regarding human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of
law;
16. Emphasizes that the OSCE should reduce its reliance on the consensus rule, and further
develop such human rights protection tools such as the Moscow Mechanism, and the
recently re-applied Vienna Document to inter alia monitor gross human rights
violations;
17. Strongly encourages participating States to benefit from the Helsinki +40 process to
promote the Human Dimension values at the core of the Helsinki Final Act;
18. Strongly urges participating States to co-operate with international institutions like the
OSCE, to help ensure that in the future there are no political prisoners in the OSCE area;
19. Encourages Parliamentarians to work toward adopting measures in their national
parliaments to protect the rights of labor migrants, regardless of the migrants’ legal
status;
20. Calls on participating States to ensure access to justice for all those detained, and to
ensure that people are not detained indefinitely, under arduous conditions and without
adequate legal counsel, and to consider establishing a special rapporteur on cases of
indefinite detention or lack of rule of law in the OSCE area;
21. Repeats its call for the Ministerial Council to adopt full, effective, and long-term
mandates for OSCE field operations;
22. Strongly urges the Permanent Council to re-open the Field Missions in Belarus and
Georgia, and to return the monitoring and reporting mandates to the status of the OSCE
field operations in Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and to open an OSCE field mission in
Mongolia.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
on
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
[Set out text of Amendment here:]
Principal Sponsor:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in
Capital Letters
Country Signature
Co-sponsored by:
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AS (14) DRS 2 E
Original: English
DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
AND ENVIRONMENT
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
RAPPORTEUR
Mr. Roger Williams
United Kingdom
BAKU, 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 2014
OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2013-14
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 37
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Rapporteur: Mr. Roger Williams (United Kingdom)
1. Welcoming the OSCE’s Helsinki +40 process as an opportunity to reinforce, as well as update,
OSCE commitments, particularly in the economic and environmental dimension,
2. Recognizing the interrelationship of water, energy and food issues, and their significant
implications for security and stability within States as well as across borders,
3. Mindful of the role that the OSCE has to play in addressing the water-energy-food nexus from a
stability and security perspective,
4. Commending the OSCE for its work in mediating disputes between States over water resources,
5. Concerned by the challenges that States face in ensuring that food and water are available for
their citizens, largely due to increased price volatility of foodstuffs caused by severe weather
events, climate change and the increase of the global population,
6. Recalling the massive devastation brought to the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan, which offered
a tragic reminder of how critical the global climate change situation is,
7. Noting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s report released on 26
September 2013, in which IPCC scientists concluded with a 95 per cent certainty that humans
are the dominant cause of global warming and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is higher than it
has been in at least the last 800,000 years,
8. Reiterating the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to a changing climate,
9. Pointing out that greenhouse gas emissions vary considerably in different food production
systems, with emissions much higher in meat and dairy production,
10. Noting that changing climatic conditions will affect crop growth and livestock performance, the
availability of water, fisheries and aquaculture yields, and the functioning of ecosystems in all
regions,
11. Regretting the lack of progress on key issues of reducing CO2 emissions and financial help for
countries most affected by climate change at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP 19) of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
12. Restating the OSCE PA Istanbul Declaration’s recognition that environmental challenges such
as climate change require world leaders to make compromises at the international level, and in
this regard the Helsinki +40 process can serve as a powerful inspiration for co-operation,
13. Recalling that the main cause of the ongoing economic recession was the poor governance of
national and international financial institutions,
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14. Recognizing that governments, international and financial institutions should be encouraged
to support the sustainable development in mountainous regions,
15. Noting the potential that investment in science and technology plays in promoting economic
growth for nations and improved employment and living standards for individuals,
16. Aware that economic and environmental migration can provide opportunities for people to
improve their lives while building the economies of countries that receive them, but that
unplanned and excessive movements can cause tension and adversely affect the provision of
public services,
17. Pointing out that economic migration, particularly from North Africa, has placed a great burden
on Southern European States and has also resulted in the tragic loss of a large number of lives,
as vessels used for this activity are often unseaworthy,
18. Recognizing that trade is often disrupted by man-made and natural disasters and that borders
need to be secured, robust and resilient to enable trade to continue during periods of heightened
threats and alerts,
19. Stressing the essential role that trade unions play in representation, negotiation and resolution,
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
20. Calls for nations to ensure that trade unions can operate in a supportive legal context to ensure
that they play a full part in promoting prosperity;
21. Urges the OSCE to work with Southern European countries and our partners in North Africa to
protect migrants and provide facilities for them after their arrival in Europe;
22. Calls upon OSCE participating States to adopt regulations that limit risk-based speculation and
enable financial bodies to provide capital for investment to restart national economies through
improvements in infrastructure and long-term projects;
23. Urges participating States to take steps to encourage young people to pursue careers in
agriculture, for example by facilitating transnational courses in agricultural science;
24. Calls for more research on crop and animal production, investments in science and technology
and the adoption of fiscal policies that encourage private companies to invest in research and
development;
25. Urges the OSCE to help co-ordinate national governments in moving away from budget cuts
into solid investments to provide a foundation for the sound improvement of the global
economy;
26. Encourages the OSCE to facilitate technology and knowledge transfers with a view towards
improving the way people produce and consume, as well as promoting the use of best practices
in agricultural and fisheries production;
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27. Endorses a multidimensional approach to food and water security, including all areas of science
and technology that can make a valuable impact;
28. Expresses concern over the use of certain types of energy extraction, particularly hydraulic
fracturing or “fracking”, that are known to have an adverse effect on water supplies;
29. Calls upon the OSCE and its participating States to examine methods to reduce waste in food
chains, improve post-harvest management and educate consumers on how to reduce waste
through smarter purchasing choices;
30. Encourages the OSCE and its participating States to work on migration management to increase
the benefits of migration while reducing its potential negative implications;
31. Calls upon OSCE participating States to continue working towards a new universal climate
agreement so that it appears on the table at the next UN climate change conference in Peru,
toward a final agreement in Paris, in 2015;
32. Calls for the OSCE field operations to receive all the funding they need in order to carry out
their vital work in the economic and environmental dimension;
33. Reiterates the central importance of the economic and environmental dimension in the Helsinki
+40 process;
34. Calls on European Union Member States to engage further in migration management and to
ensure that the contribution and burden of migrants on the European continent is shared equally
among Member States.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
on
Helsinki +40: Towards Human Security For All
[Set out text of Amendment here:]
Principal Sponsor:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in Capital
Letters
Country Signature
Co-sponsored by:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in Capital
Letters
Country Signature