Helsinki 1992 127 Democracy at a local and regional level The participating States (53) Will endeavour, in order to strengthen democratic participation and institution building and in developing co-operation among them, to share their respective experience on the functioning of democracy at a local and regional level, and welcome against this background the Council of Europe information and education network in this field; (54) Will facilitate contacts and encourage various forms of co-operation between bodies at a local and regional level. Nationality The participating States (55) Recognize that everyone has the right to a nationality and that no one should be deprived of his/her nationality arbitrarily; (56) Underline that all aspects of nationality will be governed by the process of law. They will, as appropriate, take measures, consistent with their constitutional framework not to increase statelessness; (57) Will continue within the CSCE the discussion on these issues. Capital punishment The participating States (58) Confirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment. Free media The participating States (59) Direct the ODIHR to organize a CSCE Human Dimension Seminar on Free Media, to be held in 1993. The goal of the Seminar will be to encourage the discussion, demonstration, establishment of contacts and exchange of information between governmental representatives and media practitioners. Education The participating States (60) Would welcome, in view of the importance of education as to the dissemination of the ideas of democracy, human rights and democratic institutions, especially in a period of change, the organization to this end of a seminar entitled “Education: Structures, Policies and Strategies” by the Council of Europe, open to all participating States.

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