Paris 1990
Non-governmental Organizations
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.
New structures and institutions of the CSCE Process
(…)
We decide to establish an Office for Free Elections in Warsaw to facilitate contacts and
the exchange of information on elections within participating States.
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Supplementary document to give effect to certain provisions
contained in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe
Procedures and organizational modalities relating to certain provisions contained in
the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, signed in Paris on 21 November 1990, are set out
below.
I.
Institutional arrangements
(…)
G. The office for free elections
1. The function of the Office for Free Elections will be to facilitate contacts and the
exchange of information on elections within participating States. The Office will thus
foster the implementation of paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the Document of the Copenhagen
Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (…)
2. To this end, the Office will
• compile information, including information provided by the competent authorities
of the participating States, on the dates, procedures and official results of scheduled
national elections within participating States, as well as reports of election observations, and provide these on request to governments, parliaments and interested private organizations;
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