MINSK, 21 November (BelTA) – Consultations on the improvement of the OSCE activities have been held in the CSTO Secretariat under the chairmanship of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Mr Gennady Nevyglas, BelTA learnt from Spokesperson for the CSTO Vladimir Zainetdinov.
The participants of the consultations discussed preparations for the 19th OSCE Ministerial Council that is due to be held in Dublin on 6-7 December. They reaffirmed their commitment to the joint efforts to formalize common priorities in the documents of the forthcoming OSCE Ministerial Council, including indivisibility of security, supremacy of law in international relations, inviolability of the consensus principle, reformation of the OSCE, development and adoption of the OSCE charter, freedom of movement in the context of visa liberalization, tolerance, resistance to manifestations of aggressive nationalism and attempts to falsify history, combating transnational threats, development of agreed principles of monitoring elections by the OSCE/ODIHR, changes in the mood of human rights events, the CSTO informed.
According to the participants of the consultations, the CSTO member states should stick together, in particular, at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin. This pertains to the order of precedence of speeches of the heads of delegations at the forthcoming session.
The parties also communicated their views on the OSCE reformation aimed to rectify geographic and functional misbalances, complete its institutional formation and transformation into a full-bodied international organization according to the Chapter VIII of the UN Charter, in the interests of stability and security in all the participating states. It is also important that the Organization should remove dividing lines in its area of responsibility. “It is deemed necessary to consistently persuade the OSCE partners to develop and adopt a charter – a legally binding founding document of the OSCE,” the CSTO informed.
Discussing the concept of the Irish Presidency in Helsinki Plus 40, the participants of the consultations pointed to the need for a system-based reformation of the OSCE. This pertains to the update of the agenda, correction of misbalances in its work, the need to secure real implementation of the indivisibility of security and formation of the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community in line with the decisions made at the OSCE Summit in Astana in 2010.
“The participants of the consultations voiced their vision of the OSCE field operations in the CSTO area of responsibility. They noted that after completing their mandates the OSCE missions should finish their project activities and close field operations in accordance with Article 41 of the OSCE Charter for European Security (1999).
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