POLITICS
PARLIAMENTARIANS CALL FOR REFORM AND MORE TRANSPARENCY IN OSCE
The Assembly also calls on the OSCE to respond to its recommendations on the draft OSCE budget and recommends that the OSCE PA response to the draft OSCE budget be discussed in the Permanent Council and the Advisory Committee on Management and Finance. The Assembly furthermore calls on National OSCE PA Delegations to work to ensure that OSCE PA’s Declarations are followed up at the national level of parliaments as well as by governments. The Resolution also urges the leadership of the OSCE PA, particularly the Heads of the three General Committees to do their best to ensure that OSCE PA recommendations are implemented by the relevant OSCE bodies and Institutions, and recommends that follow-up to the annual Declaration and the implementation status are put on the agenda of the Winter Meeting of the OSCE PA. Finally the Resolution calls on the OSCE to upgrade the role of the Secretary General with a view to strengthening and enlarging his prerogatives, especially in the political sphere.
More than 300 parliamentarians from 52 OSCE states participate in the 13th Annual Session, which will adopt the Edinburgh Declaration on 9 July 2004.