INTERESTING PERIOD

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INTERESTING PERIOD

• year of important anniversaries
• following most extensive EU and NATO enlargement
  of all time
• new role in new geo-political environment

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GENERAL PRINCIPLES

• balance operations
• enhance transparency
• consultations with 55 participating States
• considering interests with unbiased approach
• ways to reach consensus

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Slovenian OSCE Chairmanship /outstanding tasks/

• Agreement on
• new Secretary General
• OSCE budget for 2005
• OSCE scales of contribution

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• OSCE Reform
• Panel of Eminent Persons
• report (by end June 2005)
• specially convened session of Participating
  States
• recommendations for Ministerial Council in
  Ljubljana
• Working Group on Reform
• Informal Group of Friends of the Chair

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Political-military dimension
• Implementation of
• Strategy to address threats to security and
  stability in the 21st century
• Maastricht and Sofia Ministerial Council decisions

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Border security and management
• adopting OSCE Border Security and Management
  Concept
• open and secure borders
• free movement of persons and goods
• reducing security threats

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Tolerance and non-discrimination
• OSCE Conference on anti-Semitism and other forms
  of intolerance (Cordoba, June 2005)
• Personal Representatives to promote greater
  tolerance and combat racism, xenophobia and
  discrimination

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Elections
• further discussions
• proposal to establish a working group
• possible improvements

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Economic and Environmental Dimension
• full implementation of the OSCE Strategy Document
  for the Economic and Environmental Dimension
• enhance co-operation, good governance,
  sustainable development and protection of the
  environment

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Migration and integration
• cross-dimensional approach
• promote best practices (migration management,
  migrant integration policies)

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OSCE priorities for 2005
Preventing trafficking in human beings

• OSCE Special Representative on Combating
  Trafficking in Human Beings
• addendum to OSCE Action Plan (child victims)

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Conventional Ammunition / SALW
• implementation of Document on Stockpiles of
  Conventional Ammunition and the Document on Small
  Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)

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OSCE priorities for 2005

• Regional issues

Moldova, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh

• South-Eastern Europe
• refugee return
• protection of national minorities
• capacity-building

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• Central Asia
• transnational terrorism
• education
• elections
• migration and border management
• economic development and democratisation

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OSCE priorities for 2005
Year of the anniversaries

• contribution of Helsinki process to democracy,
  rule of law and protection of human rights
• alleviation of tensions between former blocs
• establishment of security co-operation
• new geo-political situation
• reflection on the role of the OSCE
• preserve and enhance effectiveness and strengthen
  its capacity

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OSCE priorities for 2005
Strengthening partnerships and co-operation

• Mediterranean partners
• Asian Partners
• OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

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OSCE priorities for 2005
Strengthening partnerships and co-operation

• international organizations
• prevent the duplication and increase synergy

non-governmental organizations promote NGO role
in implementing OSCE norms and standards