Annex 3 Note Verbale No. 62/06, 2 February 2006 Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights 62/2006 Note Verbale The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presents its compliments to the Delegations of the OSCE participating States and has the honour to refer to Ministerial Council Decision No. 17/05 in which the ODIHR was tasked to submit, for discussion, to the next Ministerial Council, a report on: — Implementation of existing commitments, — Possible supplementary commitments, — Ways of strengthening and furthering its election-related activities, — Improving the effectiveness of its assistance to participating States, taking into account and answering questions put by participating States and in close consultation with them. In preparing this report, and to facilitate the consultative process, the ODIHR encourages participating States in a first step to submit, in writing, questions relating to the above four issues. In order to allow for timely preparations of the report for the 2006 Ministerial Council in Brussels, participating States are requested to provide such questions not later than 10 April 2006. The questions received will provide a basis for subsequent informal consultations with participating States throughout the year. The ODIHR will also make use of the regular Human Dimension meetings in 2006, in particular the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, as well as other occasions for formal consultation with governmental and civil society representatives from all participating States. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Delegations of the OSCE participating States the assurances of its highest consideration. Warsaw, 2 November 2006 To the Permanent Delegations of OSCE participating States 92 Common Responsibility: Commitments and Implementation