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• serve as an institutional framework for sharing and exchanging information on available
technical assistance, expertise, and national and international programmes aimed at assisting the new democracies in their institution-building;
• facilitate contacts between those offering such resources and those wishing to make use of
them;
• develop co-operation with the Council of Europe in order to make use of its database of
such resources and services;
• establish contacts with non-governmental organizations active in the field of democratic
institution-building, with a view to enabling interested participating States to make use of
their extensive resources and expertise;
• facilitate co-operation in training and education in disciplines relevant to democratic
institutions;
• organize meetings and seminars among all participating States on subjects related to the
building and revitalization of democratic institutions, such as a short seminar on free media and, at an appropriate time, one on migration. These meetings and seminars will be held
in Warsaw unless otherwise decided.
11. In order to avoid duplication of work specially in the fields enumerated above, the Ministers
directed the Office to work closely with other institutions active in the field of democratic institution-building and human rights, particularly the Council of Europe and the European
Commission for Democracy through Law.
12. The CSO will on an annual basis examine the need for meetings and seminars on the human dimension and democratic institutions and will establish a work programme.
13. The Ministers requested the Helsinki Follow-up Meeting to further specify the task of the
Warsaw Office and to decide how the human dimension activities of the CSCE may be further
carried forward.
14. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is designated as the CSCE institution charged with the tasks in connection with expert and rapporteur missions according to the Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of
the CSCE.
15. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will be connected to the CSCE
communications network.
IV
Safeguarding human rights, democracy and the rule of law
16. The Council decided, in order to develop further the CSCE’s capability to safeguard human rights, democracy and the rule of law through peaceful means, that appropriate action
may be taken by the Council or the Committee of Senior Officials, if necessary in the absence of the consent of the State concerned, in cases of clear, gross and uncorrected violations
of relevant CSCE commitments. Such actions would consist of political declarations or other
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