EU & OSCE

The European Union's representative praised Morocco's constitutional reforms at a recent meeting of the OSCE in Vienna.  The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) also declared its firm support for Morocco's recently-announced reforms on 11 March, declaring it "warmly welcomes the announcement by His Majesty the King of Morocco establishing a consultative committee to revise the Constitution, whose recommendations will be be put to the Moroccan people".

This statement was distributed on 14 March to the OSCE's 56 members, its twelve Mediterranean and Asian partners, as well as to its own offices in Vienna, Warsaw and Copenhagen, at the request of the Hungarian Mission to the OSCE which currently holds the Presidency of the European Union.

The OSCE concerns itself with human rights and the establishment of democratic institutions and employs internationally-recognised instruments and mechanisms for transitional democracy and the protection of individual rights.  Its Warsaw office is particularly active in these fields, while its Representative for media freedom operates from the OSCE's Vienna office, its High Commissioner for minorities is based in the Hague and its parliamentary secretariat is located in Copenhagen.

The OSCE promotes the concept of global and indivisible security, based on three aspects: political/military, economic/environmental and the human.  The human element encompasses democracy; equality of the sexes; human rights; freedom of speech; minority rights; the Rule of Law, as well as tolerance and non-discrimination.