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k) Complementing the code of conduct on politico-military aspects of security with a code consolidating and developing commitments in the OSCE human dimension, including democratic and minority rights and cooperation against terrorism;

/) Encouraging regional and subregional measures for security, stability and cooperation, which fit into the framework of the comprehensive security model for Europe; m) Devising new approaches for cooperation and good neighbourliness within the framework of the Pact on Stability and its extension to south-east Europe;

n) Entrusting the implementation and further development of commitments in the economic

dimension of the OSCE process to organizations and institutions best suited for this field, and adjusting the OSCE role, including the need for an Economic Forum and for its further development with particular regard to environmental questions;

o) Calling upon the States concerned to refer their disputes to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitrations so that it may play its full role as quickly as possible;

p) Refocusing arms control and confidence and security-building measures on the basis of national obligations and encouraging more intense focus on regional regimes, particulary arms reductions and limitations on arms production, export and transfer and the*establishment of European nuclear free zones;

q) Concluding the mandate of the 1994 Budapest Summit decision to elaborate a framework for arms control by the time of the Lisbon Summit and agreeing in the framework of the Summit meeting on an agenda which sets guidelines for the introduction of new arms control measures;

r) Promoting the creation of zones free of nuclear weapons in the OSCE region, as a necessary and important component of a new all-European security system;

s) Considering methods for greater information

• exchange from the other OSCE institutions to the

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; t) Full recognition that the enlargement of security organizations cannot be considered in isolation but only as part of a wider process in which OSCE, a wide-ranging partnership among NATO, Russia and Ukraine, an enlarged NATO, and an active partnership for peace and the WEU form complementary parts of a broad, inclusive European security architecture based on mutual confidence and supporting the objective of an undivided Europe;

u) Entrusting the Forum for Security Cooperation with questions of preventive and qualitative arms control, with particular regard to the impact of new developments in weapons technology; v) Entrusting the Conflict Prevention Center with the collection and evaluation of information on the implementation and verification of disarmament and arms control measures in the OSCE region . and with the task of coordinating possible OSCE peacekeeping operations and of coordinating those operations with the United Nations.

27 — Recognizing the contribution of the OSCE to security and cooperation in Europe through it constructive role in negotiations aimed at securing a peaceful resolution of the war in Chechnya in a manner consistent with Helsinki principles and international law and urging the parties to fully implement, on a timely basis,.provisions of the Nazran accord:

28 — Notes with satisfaction that thanks to active mediation by the OSCE Assistance Group, negotiations have taken place and an agreement has been concluded; and hopes that the agreement will bring about a lasting solution to the conflict in Chechnya;

29 — Calls upon the parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the agreements and to refrain from taking any steps that would jeopardize a political solution to the conflict;

30 — Calls on the OSCE to continue its search for a

solution to the conflict by offering its good offices during

the forthcoming negotiations and supporting implementations of the agreement;

31 — Calls on all parties in Albania to consider holding new parliamentary elections, after a reasonable but limited period of time, under improved conditions and in the presence of international observers, as recommended by the Assembly's delegation;

32 — Calls upon the OSCE and its participating States to agree support a unilateral, worldwide ban on antipersonnel mines, including the producting, sale, export, transfer abroad and use of anti-personnel mines and the elimination of existing stocks;

33 — Calls upon the OSCE and its participating States to sign Protocol II of the UN Conventional Weapons Convention (CWC);

34 — Calls upon the OSCE and its participating States to demand an extension of the scope of Protocol JJ to cover non-international armed conflict.

CHAPTER II

Economic affairs, science, technology and environment

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:

35 — Recognizing that security in the OSCE region as a whole and, more particularly, security in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS region can be substancially affected negatively through economic, social and environmental developments that undermine public support for democratic government and exacerbate ethnic rivalries and tensions;

36 — Convinced that effective economic transformation in these countries is essential in order to improve the economic well-being of their citizens;

37 — Aware that the situtations prevailing in each country differ and that the pace of restructuring must take account of the economic and social conditions existing in each country;

38 — Recognizing that social conditions can strengthen or weaken support for democratic government and intensify or diminish ethnic tension;

39 — Aware that social conditions in turn are directly

affected by the pace and effectiveness of the process of

economic transformation;

40 — Noting that the social costs of market reforms cat\, if they are excessive, jeopardize political stability;