BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

09/07/2007

OSCE Parliamentary assembly adopts Kiev declaration

KIEV, July 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe adopted a Kiev declaration on Monday.

The focus of the document is on energy security and the situation in Belarus.

It stresses the need for the use of replenished sources of energy and welcomes the goal of increasing a proportion of these sources to 20 percent by 2010.

The Parliamentary Assembly called on OSCE countries to create effective systems of control of energy crises and to fulfill their international obligations,

The Parliamentary Assembly voiced regret that Belarus' presidential and local elections in this year's January did not meet OSCE standards.

The parliamentarians called on the Belarussian leadership to fulfill its international obligations and principles of a democratic European state.

It also called for amending the Belarussian election code to make it meet the OSCE standards.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly stated the need for the adoption of a common system of migration regulation. It called on state institutions of member states to take the obligation to prevent "erosion of freedom".

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11702259&PageNum=0

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