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Karabakh, as well as continuing negotiations under OSCE Minsk Group auspices;

13 — Welcoming the endorsement of a joint communique by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Luxembourg on 21 April 1996 and the declaration «for consensus, peace, economic and cultural co-operation between nations in the Caucasus», signed on 3 June 1996, in which responsibilities to intensify the negotiations process for the speediest comprehensive and peaceful settlement of the conflict are expressed;

14 — Reaffirming compliance with the UN Security Council resolutions 822, 853, 874, 884 dated 1993 on immédiat, complete and unconditional withdrawal of occupying forces from all occupied regions;

15 — Taking into account the active work of the OSCE Minsk Group aimed at concluding a political agreement on ending the armed conflict;

16 — Emphasizing, however, the prolonged nature of the negotiations which, in fact, contradicts the decisions of the OSCE Budapest Summit «intensifying OSCE activities with regard to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict*.

17 —Recalling the challenge of the 1995 OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ottawa Declaration to «implement immediately the OSCE decision, which obliges the participating States to send out a peacekeeping mission to Nagorno-Karabakh by the end of 1995 comprising at least 2000 participants»;

18 — Recalling its support, in the 1995 Ottawa Declaration, for the adoption of a broad concept of common and comprehensive security* encompassing not only military aspects but also economic, social, environmental and others building on close and interactive cooperation between governments and legislators at all stages of political developments in the OSCE region;

19 — Further recalling its support at Ottawa for establishing meaningful cooperation with the United Nations and with the Council of Europe, NATO, WEU, and other democratic organizations deemed relevant to security in the OSCE area and by ensuring their permanent representation;

20 — Reaffirming the fundamental OSCE principles that each participating State maintains the inherent right to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, as they evolve, and that no participating State will strengthen its security at the expense of the security of other States or regard any part of the OSCE region as its sphere of influence;

21 —Taking into account that the elaboration of a security model is a long process and that it is, therefore, desirable to invite thé participation of thé widest possible parliamentary circles of the OSCE participating States;

22 — Taking into consideration that the elaboration of a security model requires the organization of political and academic forums dedicated to this goal;

23 — Acknowledging the immense humanitarian suffering caused by the use of anti-personnel mines and the enormous hindrances it poses to. rebuilding war torn communities;

24 — Recognizing that the proliferation of mines has created a triple crisis: individuals are the victims of inhumane weapons; developing nations are unable to go forward with economic and social programmes; and families, localities and nations are compelled to bear an increasingly heavy medical and social burden;

25 — Taking into account the growing threat of terrorism noted in the documents which were approved at the meetings in Sharm al Sheikh (Cairo) and Lyon; •

26 — Invites the OSCE and the participating States to continue the process of elaborating a common and comprehensive security model for Europe for the twenty-first century in order to present the progress achieved and the results available at the OSCE Summit in Lisbon in 1996. These should include:

a) An unqualified statement of the paramount importance attached to the implementation of existing OSCE commitments with the understanding that new provisions should, in no way, diminish these commitments;

b) Developing the special role of the OSCE in respect of preventive diplomacy, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation by furnishing it with the necessary resources;

c) Improvement of OSCE decision-making by adopting the principle of «approximate consensus* as recommended by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly;

d) Strengthened executive action through Troika, the

Secretary General and the participation of interested OSCE participating States, drawing upon the model of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board with respect to Bosnia-Herzegovina;

e) Subjecting failure to adhere to OSCE commitments to a range of possible sanctions beyond political declarations alone;

f) Strengthening the OSCE in preventive diplomacy, conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction, including6strengthening its instruments and placing the necessary resources at the disposal of its institutions;

g) Strengthening the executive functions of the OSCE through the establishment of a «consultaúve group» as a preparatory body in which the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Secretary General, the EU Presidency, the members of the contact group and a limited number of further participating States, in a rotating membership, are represented;

h) Creation of a common European security area, free from dividing lines, based on such basic principles as indivisbility of security, its comprehensive and multidimensional character, necessity of close co-operation between states and international institutions in the field of security;

/) Agreement on a binding procedure which guarantees a continuous reciprocal exchange of information, close consultation and coordination of activities between the OSCE, the UniVfci Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, NATO and WEU at Secretary General or Presidency level and on an equal basis without hierarchies or superior responsibilities and with . all interested parties with the purpose of maintaining peace and-stability, meeting the concerns of all OSCE participating States in the sphere of security;

j) Elaboration of a new politically binding security platform based on co-operation, i. e a document which will include norms and obligations, already worked out and 'adopted by the OSCE and which will envisage further strengthening and increasing the level of security for all the OSCE participating States;