34.
Encourages efforts to co-operate on shaping a safe and free future for Libya by supporting
border security and counter-terrorism efforts, fostering political stability and the rule of
law through dialogue, providing economic assistance, addressing the migration routes to
the OSCE region emerging from Libyan territory and facilitating Libya’s admission as a
unified and democratic country to the Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation at the
earliest practicable instance;
35.
Endorses the conclusions of the Parliamentary Conference on Combating International
Terrorism, jointly organized by the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Independent States and the OSCE PA in St. Petersburg on 28 March 2017;
36.
Calls on all participating States to uphold their OSCE commitments and make use of the
OSCE toolbox in the fight against both internal and external threats and in this regard
regrets the measures taken against Turkish parliamentarians, including their
imprisonment and deprivation of the possibility to exercise their popular mandate;
37.
Regrets the accusations levelled by the Turkish authorities against the international
missions from the ODIHR and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to
observe the Turkish referendum of 16 April 2017, and calls on the Turkish authorities to
restore freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly;
38.
Urges that measures be taken to enhance cybersecurity between States, to prevent tension
and conflicts stemming from the use of information and communication technologies,
and to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats, including by strengthening the
implementation of the OSCE’s confidence-building measures in the area of cybersecurity
and facilitating co-operation among the competent national bodies and law enforcement
agencies;
39.
Calls on OSCE participating States to continue to strive to achieve a consensus on the
operation and funding of OSCE missions, both permanent and temporary, and, to the
extent possible within the limits of international law, to give the OSCE missions the most
broadly interpreted powers and the greatest possible freedom of movement so that they
can carry out their missions in the safest and most satisfactory manner for all participating
States;
40.
Calls for an end to military hostilities in Ukraine, the full withdrawal of heavy calibre
weaponry by both sides, and full access to the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to
Ukraine (SMM) and humanitarian aid organizations;
41.
Condemns numerous serious incidents of pressure, harassment and intimidation of the
SMM monitors combined with the cases of deliberate destruction of the OSCE assets
taking place in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by the
Russian hybrid forces, and urges the Russian Federation to take practical measures to
ensure the necessary security conditions for the SMM, which will prevent further
escalation of the situation;
42.
Calls upon the Russian Federation as an occupying power in the Crimean Peninsula to
remove any restrictions or other impediments that affect the freedom of movement of the
Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and prevent its monitors from fulfilling their
mandate;
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