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10 June 1999, including the establishment, pursuant to that resolution, of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo as an
essential part of the broader United Nations Interim Administration Mission in
Kosovo, responsible for institution-building, including the training of a new Kosovo
police service, judicial personnel and civil administrators, the development of free
media, democratization and governance, the organization and supervision of
elections and the monitoring, protection and promotion of human rights, in
cooperation with, inter alia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, and stresses the commitment of the United Nations and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe to the full implementation of resolution 1244
(1999);
11. Commends the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for
its substantial role in the preparation and organization of the local elections in
Kosovo in view of the consolidation of stability and prosperity in Kosovo on the
basis of substantial autonomy, respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, pending a final settlement in accordance with
resolution 1244 (1999);
12. Welcomes the role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe in the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
initialled in Dayton, United States of America, on 21 November 1995, 4 in particular
in the fields of human rights and judicial and police reform, and commends the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for its substantial role in the
preparation and organization of elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
13. Underlines the importance of regional cooperation as a means of
fostering good-neighbourly relations, stability and economic development,
welcomes the implementation of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe under
the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as an
important long-term and comprehensive initiative to promote good-neighbourly
relations, stability and economic development, and also welcomes the commitment
of participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to
contribute further to the goals of the Stability Pact;
14. Welcomes the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe in assisting in the implementation of articles II and IV of annex 1-B to the
General Framework Agreement and its contribution to the creation of a framework
for peace and stability in South-Eastern Europe;
15. Fully supports the activities of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict in and around
the Nagorny-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and welcomes
cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe in this regard;
16. Welcomes, in view of lack of progress in the peace process of the
Nagorny-Karabakh conflict, the intention of the Co-Chairmen of the Minsk Group
of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Personal
Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe to intensity their efforts in fulfilling their mandates and to
further an atmosphere of mutual trust between all parties to the conflict, also
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See A/50/790-S/1995/999.
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