OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2012-13
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 27
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AS (13) DRS 1 E
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DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Helsinki +40
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Vilija Aleknaite Abramikiene
Lithuania
ISTANBUL, 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 2013
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY
Rapporteur: Vilija Aleknaite Abramikiene (Lithuania)
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Commemorating the adoption of the 1999 Charter for European Security at the Istanbul
Summit which made important progress on confidence and security building measures and
arms control,
Recalling the Helsinki +40 process, established in the OSCE Ministerial Council Decision in
Dublin, and welcoming this opportunity for renewed dialogue on important aspects of the
future of the OSCE,
Reflecting on the lack of progress regarding modernizing arms control regimes and finding
solutions to unresolved conflicts in the OSCE area,
Expressing concern for the security situation in Central Asia, specifically border control, in
light of the forthcoming withdrawal of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from
Afghanistan,
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The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
5.
Calls for clarification of the goals and purpose of the Helsinki +40 process by the OSCE
Chairmanship, in co-operation with the next two chairmanships, whilst informing the public
about the process to increase the level of interest and transparency;
Urges participating States to make use of the Helsinki +40 process to rebuild trust between
each other and to combine informal diplomatic dialogue with political engagement from
capitals to achieve an agreement on essential updates for the OSCE, and calls upon OSCE
participating States to take advantage of this process at the political level to reach concrete
decisions on an action plan to achieve an indivisible Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security
community stretching from Vancouver to Vladivostok;
In this connection, recommends participating States to incorporate ideas about reform of OSCE
Institutions and instruments, especially the ones listed in the OSCE PA 2005 Colloquium
Report, so to be better able to take the necessary decisions for action;
Calls on the OSCE Permanent Council to incorporate the Assembly’s input and ideas into the
process and to consider the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly as the most direct link to the people
of the OSCE region, as a partner in the Helsinki +40 process;
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9.
Calls on participating States to continue to monitor their implementation of OSCE
commitments, specifically on issues of democracy and human rights, and stresses the important
role of parliaments in this respect;
10. Welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty which
seeks to bring transparency and protection of human rights to the industry, and calls upon
parliaments of OSCE participating States to take necessary measures to ratify the Treaty so that
it can enter into force;
11. Reiterates the need for updating the Vienna Document at the Kyiv Ministerial Council Meeting
in order to increase transparency and predictability, including lowering thresholds at which
States are obliged to inform each other of their military exercises, increasing the opportunities
for verification activity, modernizing and updating the exchange of military information,
strengthening risk reduction mechanisms and enlarging the scope of confidence- and security-
building measures;
12. Calls for renewed negotiations on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, and
strongly encourages all countries party to the Treaty to honour their CFE obligations;
13. Urges OSCE participating States that are parties to the Open Skies Treaty to investigate ways
of asset sharing in order to allow sufficient financial means for certification processes, training
and aerial observation in order to contribute to the further development and strengthening of
peace, stability and co-operative security;
14. Calls for intensified efforts towards generating a peaceful and viable solution to the un-
resolved conflicts, and urges the OSCE Chairmanship to redouble efforts to find solutions to
the tragic protracted conflicts in the Caucasus and Moldova;
15. In this connection, repeats its recommendation to re-establish a meaningful OSCE presence in
Georgia, and to maintain and strengthen the OSCE Offices in Baku and Yerevan, as well as the
OSCE Mission in Moldova;
16. Stresses in general the important role of OSCE field operations in areas related to all three
OSCE dimensions, and calls for the political mandates of OSCE field operations to reflect this;
17. Calls on the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to continue their engagement with Armenia and
Azerbaijan to seek solutions to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh;
18. Supports the Geneva Process to find solutions to the consequence of the 2008 war in Georgia,
welcomes the decrease of security related incidents and the work of the Ergneti Incident
Prevention and Response Mechanism, and urges the OSCE to continue its work on confidence-
and security-building measures in Georgia;
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19. Welcomes the engagement of the Ukrainian Chairmanship and the progress made in the
Transdniestrian settlement process, and strongly urges parties involved in the conflict, as well
as outside mediators, to work to maintain the momentum and continue the direct contacts
between leaders from Chisinau and Tiraspol;
20. Urges the OSCE to pay close attention to the security situation in Central Asia in the lead-up to
the withdrawal of ISAF from Afghanistan and to form a plan to deal with any spill-over effect
within field operations, the Conflict Prevention Centre and the Transnational Threats
Department;
21. Calls on the OSCE to increase efforts to train border guards and law enforcement agents in
Central Asia to secure borders and prevent terrorism, and recommends the OSCE increase
attention to cross-border co-operation in general as a tool in the final stage of the conflict cycle
as well as a conflict prevention mechanism;
22.
Again invites the OSCE to deepen contact and co-operation with Afghanistan and to help
strengthen ties between Afghanistan and the Central Asian States in order to address security
challenges;
23. Stresses that the security of the OSCE area is linked to that of the Mediterranean, requests that
the OSCE increasingly engages with its Mediterranean partners, considers that the
Parliamentary Assembly should play a more prominent role in this area, and insists on the need
to renew and strengthen the Mediterranean Forum;
24. Strongly condemns the April terrorist attack in Boston at a sports event which served to bring
people together in peace, and calls upon OSCE participating States to unite and increase
international co-operation to fight terrorism in all its forms.
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