In addition to this, a number of other international documents are enacted with the idea of establishing participation of foreign residents in public life. Recommendation 115 (2002) on the participation of foreign residents in local public life: consultative bodies is of particular interest for our study here. In item 8 of this Recommendation it is stipulated that “... foreign residents who are lastingly and legally settled in the territory of a state should be granted rights, including political rights, in return for their acceptance of duties toward the host community.” In item 20, the Resolution “invites the EU to follow the non-discriminatory approach recommended by the Council of Europe and its conventions, and accordingly to re-examine its current policies on the participation of foreign residents in public life at local level so as to secure residence-based citizenship for all foreigners whatever their country of origin and grant them the same political rights on the basis of common criteria of residence.”