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Letter from the Office of the Prime Minister of Latvia to the High Commissioner on National Minorities Max van der Stoel regarding the Working Group Concerning Amendments to the Citizenship Law and the response of the High Commissioner on National Minorities.

This report provides a brief assessment of a draft Convention on Elections and Electoral Rights and Freedoms dated 31 July 2001. The text is proposed for adoption by the member States of the Council of Europe. It was drafted by a team of election specialists led by Prof. V. I. Lysenko of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation. According to Prof. Lysenko’s explanatory note, the aims of the Convention would be, inter alia, to bring together, in a binding international act, the accumulated experience of the Council of Europe in the legal regulation and the conduct of free and democratic elections. It would also concretise the electoral standards flowing from Article 3 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Speech by Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens at the Signing of the protocol on implementing ODIHR recommendations

Extension of the Mandate of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine

7th Economic Forum, Main Subjects, Modalities

Consolidated summary: Experience, possibilites, tasks, Kiev

Report by Richard Monk, Senior Police Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General

Compendium of the 2001 Albanian parliamentary elections.

This report, the eighth in a series jointly produced by UNHCR and OSCE, is intended to provide an overview of the problems confronted by minority communities living in Kosovo today.

The purpose of the report is to draw the attention of the politicians, the civil society and broader public to the concerns of the people in Kosovo and to encourage politicians to respond to the demands of their electorate and take responsibilities.