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OSCE

- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

This global organization is in its formative stages. Its constitutive documents are: the OSCE Final Act of 1975 .; The Charter of Paris for a New Europe; Declaration. Challenges of Change and a package of decisions on the structure and main directions of the OSCE activity.

Prior to 1990, he acted as an international convention. Meeting of the Heads of State and Government held 2 times a year.

Since 1990, it begins to act as an emerging international organization founded on the principle of political security.

The main idea of ​​the OSCE:

1) Cooperation in the field of security, economy, culture, human rights and freedoms;

2) disarmament, the prevention of conflicts.

The supreme body of the OSCE is the Meeting of Heads of State and Government.

The objectives of this body is to establish policy priorities and the development of guidelines at the highest political level.

Meeting and subject to the following organs operate on a permanent basis:

1) The Council of the OSCE Foreign Ministers -to his disposal is a committee of senior and officials;

2) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - promoting information exchange and strengthening practical cooperation among States in the human dimension and the establishment of democratic institutions;

3) Upper Commissioner on National Minorities - must monitor the situation with national minorities, which could potentially develop into a conflict;

4) Conflict Prevention Centre;

5) The Advisory Committee;

6) The Secretariat;

7) on the application of the OSCE Court and Arbitration.