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| Title |
The Helsinki Process: from the CSCE to the OSCE
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| Document type |
Video clip
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| Source |
OSCE: FOR HUMAN DIGNITY- Vienna: OSCE [Prod.], 2000. OSCE, Vienna. - VIDEO (00:03:48, Colour, Original Sound Track).
OSCE Press and Public Information Section, Kaerntner Ring 5-7, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
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| Keywords |
cold war, CSCE, Helsinki conference, OSCE, peaceful co-existence
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| Copyright |
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| Caption |
This video clip presents the origins and development of the Helsinki Process, from the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). It outlines, in particular, the aims of the Conference when it was first established during the Cold War era, its influence as an instrument for détente between East and West and its conversion into an organisation with new tasks following the collapse of the Communist bloc.
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| Location in the digital library |
EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS >> Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe >> Origin and development
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| Document extract |
During the Cold War, the world was living in constant fear of a global conflict with Europe as the main battlefield. Détente politics opened the way for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the signing in 1975 of the landmark Helsinki Final Act. History now credits the so-called Helsinki Process with helping to end the Cold War and the division of Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, I have the great honour to declare open the first stage of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Normally, people are used to sign a treaty in order to finish a capital of History. This is exactly the other way round. The Final Act of Helsinki and the signature of the Final Act was the beginning of a new face in European History, a starting point of a process. And, as we see, it changed the world. The idea of this Conference, in the first line, was a Soviet idea and the main goal of this Soviet proposal was to freeze the division of Germany and the division of Europe. And it was a great success of Western diplomacy to change the goal of our Conference; Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Address given by Mary Kaldor on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act (Helsinki, 1 August 2005)
European Parliament resolution on the CSCE (9 October 1990)
From the CSCE to the OSCE
Address given by Dimitrij Rupel on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act (Helsinki, 1 August 2005)
Participating states of the OSCE
Development of the CSCE/OSCE Standard Scale of Contributions
How European Political Cooperation worked in practice
Key dates of the OSCE
CSCE Summit in Budapest (5 and 6 December 1994)
Organisation chart of stage II of the CSCE (Geneva, 18 September 1973 _ 21 July 1975)
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