Implementation of Commitments
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international organizations, to engage in exchanges, contacts and co-operation with
such groups and organizations and to solicit, receive and utilize for the purpose of promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms voluntary financial
contributions from national and international sources as provided for by law.
Paris 1990 (A New Era of Democracy, Peace and Unity)
We recall the major role that non-governmental organizations, religious and other
groups and individuals have played in the achievement of the objectives of the CSCE
and will further facilitate their activities for the implementation of the CSCE commitments by the participating States. These organizations, groups and individuals must be
involved in an appropriate way in the activities and new structures of the CSCE in order
to fulfil their important tasks.
Moscow 1991
The participating States (…) express their determination to fulfil all of their human
dimension commitments and to resolve by peaceful means any related issue, individually and collectively, on the basis of mutual respect and co-operation. In this context
they recognize that the active involvement of persons, groups, organizations and institutions is essential to ensure continuing progress in this direction.
(…)
(43) The participating States will recognize as NGOs those which declare themselves
as such, according to existing national procedures, and will facilitate the ability of such
organizations to conduct their national activities freely on their territories; to that effect
they will
(43.1) - endeavour to seek ways of further strengthening modalities for contacts and
exchanges of views between NGOs and relevant national authorities and governmental institutions;
(43.2) - endeavour to facilitate visits to their countries by NGOs from within any of the
participating States in order to observe human dimension conditions;
(43.3) - welcome NGO activities, including, inter alia, observing compliance with CSCE
commitments in the field of the human dimension;
(43.4) - allow NGOs, in view of their important function within the human dimension of the CSCE, to convey their views to their own governments and the governments
of all the other participating States during the future work of the CSCE on the human
dimension.
(43.5) During the future work of the CSCE on the human dimension, NGOs will have
the opportunity to distribute written contributions on specific issues of the human
dimension of the CSCE to all delegations.
28 OSCE Human Dimension Commitments
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