The ministry said OSCE reform would be high on the agenda during OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut's visit to Moscow June 21-22.
"The OSCE's political agenda should be adapted to modern challenges and threats, and its efforts should focus on really pressing problems facing all participating states," the ministry said.
The ministry also said the organization should draft a code of comprehensive regulations, establish stricter control of activities of its institutions and missions, increase the role of the secretary general, and make financing more effective and transparent. It also repeated its criticism of organization's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights for what it said were double standards.
Russia has been unhappy over what it sees as anti-Russian bias in the ODIHR, in particular during monitoring of elections in the former Soviet Union. Along with a number of other Soviet republics, it issued a call in mid-2004 for sweeping reform of the organization, and has threatened to slash its budget funding.
The Foreign Ministry said Friday Russia would save 6.5 million euros (just over $8 mln) over three years by reducing its contributions to the OSCE budget. Its envoy to the organization said Tuesday that Russia had managed to reduce its contributions from 9 mln euros ($11.35 mln) to 6 mln euros (about $7.5 mln), and that it would eventually account for just 1.9% of the total budget, against the current figure of 3.6%
