The OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-military Aspects of Security : Anatomy and Implementation.
A regime for the democratic control of armed forces exists in the OSCE area (which stretches from Vancouver to Vladivostok) through a "Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security" (1994). This instrument, which links civil-military relations to human rights and international h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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BRILL
2005.
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Colección: | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword to Part I by Ambassador Ján Kubiš, Secretary General of the OSCE
- Foreword to Part II by Ambassador Lamberto Zannier, Director, OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre
- General Introduction
- PART I
- Paragraph-by-Paragraph Commentary on the Code of Conduct (Vincent Ghebali)
- Title: ""Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security""
- Preamble
- 1st paragraph: Parties to the Code of Conduct
- 2nd paragraph: The Code of Conduct's rationale
- 3rd paragraph: Undiminished status of existing international law principles.
- 4th paragraph: Undiminished status of existing OSCE commitments
- 5th paragraph: Adoption of the Code of Conduct
- Section I. Reaffirmation of comprehensive security and cooperative security, and enunciation of the solidarity principle
- Paragraph 1: Wholesale confirmation of OSCE commitments
- Paragraph 2: Reaffirmation of the comprehensive security concept
- Paragraph 3: Reaffirmation of the indivisibility of security in the OSCE area and beyond
- Paragraph 4: Reaffirmation of the cooperative security approach
- Paragraph 5: Enunciation of the solidarity principle.
- Section II. Reaffirmation of the commitment to cooperate against terrorism
- Paragraph 6: Reaffirmation of the commitment to take appropriate measures to prevent and combat terrorism in all its forms
- Section III. Reaffirmation of the equal value of the Helsinki Final Act's principles and of the commitment of non-assistance to aggressor states
- Paragraph 7: Reaffirmation of the equal value of the Helsinki Final Act's Principles
- Paragraph 8: Reaffirmation of the commitment of non-assistance or support to an aggressor state.
- Section IV. Security Rights and obligations of OSCE participating states
- Paragraph 9: Reaffirmation of the right to self-defence
- Paragraph 10: Reaffirmation of the right to freely choose security arrangements
- Paragraph 11: Reaffirmation of the right to belong to alliances and the right to neutrality
- Paragraph 12: Obligation to maintain only such military capabilities commensurate with individual or collective security needs.
- Paragraph 13: Obligation to determine military capabilities through national democratic procedures. Renunciation of military domination in the OSCE area
- Paragraph 14: Authorisation to station armed forces on the territory of another participating state in accordance with freely negotiated agreements as well as international law
- Section V. Importance of the process of arms control, disarmament and CSBM
- Paragraph 15: Importance of implementation in good faith of arms control, disarmament and CSBM commitments.