 • Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region 1993 Helsinki Document IV. Relations with International Organizations, Relations with Non-Participating States, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) 14. The participating States will provide opportunities for the increased involvement of non-governmental organizations in CSCE activities. 15. They will, accordingly: • apply to all CSCE meetings the guidelines previously agreed for NGO access to certain CSCE meetings; • make open to NGOs all plenary meetings of review conferences, ODIHR seminars, workshops and meetings, the CSO when meeting as the Economic Forum, and human rights implementation meetings, as well as other expert meetings. In addition each meeting may decide to open some other sessions to attendance by NGOs; • instruct Directors of CSCE institutions and Executive Secretaries of CSCE meetings to designate an “NGO liaison person” from among their staff; • designate, as appropriate, one member of their Foreign Ministries and a member of their delegations to CSCE meetings to be responsible for NGO liaison; • promote contacts and exchanges of views between NGOs and relevant national authorities and governmental institutions between CSCE meetings; • facilitate during CSCE meetings informal discussion meetings between representatives of participating States and of NGOs; • encourage written presentations by NGOs to CSCE institutions and meetings, titles of which may be kept and provided to the participating States upon request; • provide encouragement to NGOs organizing seminars on CSCE-related issues;

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