PART I  Implementation of Commitments 29 (12) The participating States will increase the openness of the CSCE institutions and structures and ensure wide dissemination of information on the CSCE. (…) (14) The participating States will provide opportunities for the increased involvement of nongovernmental 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; • notify NGOs through the CSCE institutions of the dates of future CSCE meetings, together with an indication, when possible, of the subjects to be addressed, as well as, upon request, the activations of CSCE mechanisms which have been made known to all participating States. (16) The above provisions will not be applied to persons or organizations which resort to the use of violence or publicly condone terrorism or the use of violence. (17) The participating States will use all appropriate means to disseminate as widely as possible within their societies knowledge of the CSCE, its principles, commitments and activities. Budapest 1994 (Decisions: VIII. The Human Dimension) 18. The participating States emphasize (…) the need for protection of human rights defenders and look forward to the completion and adoption, in the framework of the United Nations, of the draft declaration on the “Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”. Istanbul 1999 (Charter for European Security: III. Our Common Response) 27. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can perform a vital role in the promotion of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. They are an integral component of a strong civil