OSCE, Alm.del - 2010-11 (1. samling) - Bilag 47: OSCE PA - Supplementary Item 1-25

DRAFT RESOLUTIONThe Co-Ordination of Migration Policy in the OSCEPrincipal Sponsor: Ms. Kathleen Ferrier (Netherlands)1. Recalling the Assembly’s explicit support and acknowledgement of the work of the OSCEfield missions as the backbone of the Organization in the Oslo Declaration of 2010, theVilnius Declaration of 2009 and the Brussels Declaration of 2006,2. Reaffirming its intention as expressed in the Oslo Declaration to engage in a moresystematic follow-up of the work done by the OSCE intergovernmental operationalstructures and institutions and in particular the field missions,3. Recalling the OSCE commitments as expressed in the Ministerial Council Decision No.2/09 to an improved collection of comparable data on migration, in order to facilitatedialogue and exchange of best practices at the OSCE level and to fostering co-operationand partnership between countries of origin and destination,4. Recognizing that participating States still develop national migration schemes and policieswithout taking into consideration how their regulations will impact international migrationflows,5. Recognizing furthermore that the national migration scheme of one country can, oftenunintentionally, be undermined and negated by those of other countries due to a lack ofknowledge of the wider migration context, unfamiliarity with the experiences that othercountries have gained with certain migration policy instruments and the absence ofcommonly agreed upon definitions,6. Realizing that this lack of co-ordination in the field of migration policy sometimes alsoexists within one country if too many agencies, each from their own perspective, areinvolved in formulating and implementing migration schemes,The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:7. Calls on participating States to make more effective use of the wealth of expertise withinthe OSCE in the field of migration, both at the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCEEconomic and Environmental Activities as in the field missions;8. Calls on participating States to thus better co-ordinate their migration policies and monitortheir implementation by all relevant governmental and non-governmental actors, bothnationally and internationally;9. Recommends that the OSCE Secretariat, the field missions and the participating Statesmake every effort to collect migration data and promote their international exchange andtheir common use;10. Asks the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities tomake a proposal for the establishment of a network of national focal points for migration,1