Helsinki 1992
Framework for monitoring compliance with CSCE commitments and for
promoting co-operation in the human dimension
(4) In order to strengthen and monitor compliance with CSCE commitments as well as
to promote progress in the Human Dimension, the participating States agree to enhance
the framework of their co-operation and to this end decide the following:
Enhanced role of the ODIHR
(5) Under the general guidance of the CSO and in addition to its existing tasks as set
out in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and in the Prague Document on Further
Development of CSCE Institutions and Structures, the ODIHR will, as the main institution of the Human Dimension:
(5a) assist the monitoring of implementation of commitments in the Human Dimension by:
• serving as a venue for bilateral meetings under paragraph 2 and as a channel for information under paragraph 3 of the Human Dimension Mechanism as set out in the
Vienna Concluding Document;
• receiving any comments from States visited by CSCE missions of relevance to the
Human Dimension other than those under the Human Dimension Mechanism; it will
transmit the report of those missions as well as eventual comments to all participating
States with a view to discussion at the next implementation meeting or review conference;
• participating in or undertaking missions when instructed by the Council or the CSO;
(5b) act as a clearing-house for information on:
• a state of public emergency according to paragraph 28.10 of the Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension;
• resource lists, and assistance, e.g. in the field of censuses or on democracy at a local
and regional level, and the holding of national seminars on such issues;
(5c) assist other activities in the field of the Human Dimension, including the building
of democratic institutions by:
• fulfilling the tasks as defined in the “Programme of co-ordinated support to recently
admitted participating States”;
• arranging “Seminars on the democratic process” at the request of participating States.
The same procedural provisions as set out in the “Programme of co-ordinated support
for recently admitted participating States” will also apply to these seminars;
• contributing, within the resources at its disposal, to the preparation of seminars at the
request of one or more participating States;
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