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International Forum of the Asia-Pacific Region

Date: August 30, 2006

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International Forum of the Asia-Pacific Region

“Uniting the Efforts of the State and Non-governmental Organizations of the Asia-Pacific Region Countries in Preventing the Human Trafficking. The Best Experience and the Ways of Cooperation”

Speech 

“Struggle against the human trafficking – the OSCE potential, approaches, practical activity”

Vera Gracheva, Senior Counsellor of the OSCE Secretariat, Department for assistance in combating trafficking in human beings

Excerpt:

The Organization I represent at the Forum is uniting 56 States of Europe, Asia and the Northern America. And the human trafficking isn’t avoiding any of them, whether they are highly developed, wealthy countries (these are, mainly the countries of destination), either the countries surviving the so-called transition period of their development on their way to the market economy (and mostly often these are the countries of origin and the transit).

Russia, as well as a number of other region’s countries, combines all those listed elements, besides, according to the opinion of the most competent Russian researchers, the criminal import of foreign citizen to the country with the purpose of their further labor exploitation is significantly exceeding the export of the Russian citizens out of the Russian Federation. I’m sure, that the Russian colleagues are in possess of significantly greater factual materials on this theme, than any other international organization, that’s why I’d leave this theme and evaluations for other speakers.

But for the OSCE the search of the most effective ways in combating trafficking in human beings is one of the priority issues, of real priority, because, first of all, it concerns, as you can see, absolutely all the countries-participants. Not less important is the fact, that it is directly related to the human rights protection, to the security, to the social-economic factors of the society and the State development. It is a well known triad of the OSCE overwhelming security, the so-called three directions – human, military-technical and economic. And within the context of these three directions we regard the combating the modern form of slavery.

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Speech by Vera Gracheva, Senior Counsellor of the OSCE Secretariat