Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stands for the Necessity of Renovation of OSCE and Its Transformation into the Organisation-Leader in European Region.
It was declared by V. Lytvyn in his article "OSCE: From the Past into the Future" that was dedicated to 35th anniversary of OSCE and published in the newspaper "Holos Ukrainy" on Saturday.
Volodymyr Lytvyn, assuming the unique character of the acts of the Final Act of the Council on Security and cooperation in Europe from 1 August 19775 in the world dimension and its great contribution to the development of the new architecture of the interstate relations and European Security, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declared that during the last years "OSCE had faced new challenges, that can frozen all its work."
In particular he is convinced that "the most complicated challenge not only for OSCE but for all the international-legal system after Kosovo and Iraq became erosion of the world order, based on balance of the power, mutual recognition and common treaties."
The Head of the Ukra8inian Parliament supposes that "polyphony of new members of organization, imperfectness of the mechanism of decisions adoption, certain disproportions among the priorities of the activity of OSCE and especially the conflict of interests and approaches to the principles of non-interference in the domestic affairs and to the obligation in the social sphere bear danger for the work of OSCE." Consensus principles that is a principal criterion for the decision adoption in OSCE "became the idle regime regarding the consideration of thoughts, positions of organization members", V. Lytvyn emphasised. "For example, the situation in Ukraine in 2004 became the stumbling block during the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Sofia and in the results they failed to adopt their principal document Common Political Declaration", the Chairman of the Parliament reminded.
Volodymyr Lytvyn also pointed out the attention to "the mutations in the social dimension of OSCE" that were caused by new priorities and challenges the humanity faced in this sphere.
Taking into the consideration the facts listed above, V. Lytvyn expresses the thought that OSCE "needs new wave of reforms and changes that would facilitate strengthening of its role and significance in the solution of complicated security problems, economic and social cooperation within the vast dimensions from "Vancouver to Vladivostok."
Among the prior common political problems of OSCE under the conditions of the altering of the political map of Europe, ‘migration´ of the sphere of influence and internal political conflicts within the newly formed states, violation of the human rights and liberties restriction in the conflict zones, V. Lytvyn defines non-capacity of the organization to considerably face these challenges and respond to them and also disability of OSCE state participants, Russia, in particular, to objectively evaluate the historical processes, harmonize its national interests with the transformations in the world and suggest the ways of the constructive adaptation of OSCE to the requirements of the epoch and geopolitical changes.
Under such circumstances, V. Lytvyn deems it not coincidental "ambitious initiative" of Dmytro Medvedev regarding the formation of new architecture of security in Europe and judicially engaging Treaty on European Security. "The project of the Russian President does not expects the immediate result, it initiatives the negotiation process, discussion on new vision of the modern concept of security that suggests nonaligned and non-military mechanism of coordinating of divergent interests between the states, in particular it concerns ideological and world-view problems among the states", the Head of the Parliament explained.
Taking into the consideration that OSCE "appeared in the season of long time stagnation and searching new solutions of the situation: 11 years without organization summits, reforms are expected from 2005, the critics became more and more severe", V. Lytvyn expresses the thought that OSCE "needs Leader who is able to see the perspectives of the future of the organization."
"Only in such a way, OSCE would be able to continue its own history in the new century, respond to new challenges and threats", V. Lytvyn concluded.