40 Partners in Implementation PART I 8. Commits to further develop OSCE’s election related activities, (…) 10. Reaffirms the commitments of the participating States to invite observers to elections from other participating States, the ODIHR, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and appropriate institutions and organizations that wish to observe; (…) 12. Recognizes the ongoing need to ensure accountability, objectivity, transparency and professionalism of election observation; 13. Agrees that ODIHR should put into practice the improvements and recommendations concerning election related activities, including as contained in the report, and particularly as listed below, and will regularly submit reports on their implementation, through its Director, for review by the Permanent Council as appropriate: • To further strengthen the observation methodology and assistance programmes; • To ensure as wide as possible geographical coverage in ODIHR’s election activities; • To further diversify the participation of short-term, long-term and “core team” observers based on increased support of a wider range of participating States, by encouraging the participating States to contribute to the diversification fund, by supporting national training efforts and by developing OSCE‑wide networks of election observation practitioners; • While maintaining the highest professional standards, to further increase the transparency of recruitment of members of observation teams, including by active advertising, training, competitive procedures and open rosters for heads of election observation missions and “core team” members, which are regularly communicated to participating States and available through publicly accessible databases; • To give utmost attention to the independence, impartiality and professionalism of ODIHR’s election observation; • To enhance the linguistic inclusiveness and ensure that languages used would not affect in any way the effectiveness of the observation; 14. Stresses that election observation is a common endeavour involving the OSCE/ODIHR, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and other parliamentary institutions; 15. Recognizes that close co‑operation with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly considerably enhances the visibility of the OSCE’s election observation efforts, and calls on the ODIHR to continue to work in partnership with the Parliamentary Assembly on election observation missions on the basis of the 1997 Co-operation Agreement; (…)