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Letter from High Commissioner on National Minorities Max van der Stoel to the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Croatia regarding the inter-ethnic situation in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, Croatia, and the response of the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Croatia.

The following is the analysis of the Election Code of the Kyrgyz Republic as adopted on 29 April 2000. The analysis summarises some of the major areas of concern and contains a number of recommendations for amendments and clarifications to improve the election legislation, in line with international standards and, in particular, the OSCE commitments contained in the 1990 Copenhagen Document on the Human Dimension. The analysis is also based on the ODIHR observation of the 20 February and 12 March 2000 Parliamentary elections, which highlighted some of the Election Code shortcomings and whose findings are contained in the ODIHR Final Report, issued on 10 April 2000.

Chairman's Report, Reports of the Working Group Co-ordinators.

Two letters from High Commissioner on National Minorities Max van der Stoel to the Foreign Minister of Ukraine with recommendations on the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the response of the Foreign Minister of Ukraine.

This report analyses access-to-counsel and effectiveness-of-counsel issues at two stages of the criminal process: first, during the period from arrest until the first detention hearing; and second, during the first detention hearing.

Letter from High Commissioner on National Minorities Max van der Stoel to the Foreign Minister of Latvia regarding citizenship and the response of the Foreign Minister of Latvia.