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Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1994 SUMMIT
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BUDAPEST
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BUDAPEST DOCUMENT 1994 TOWARDS A GENUINE PARTNERSHIP IN A NEW ERA
Table of Contents BUDAPEST SUMMIT DECLARATION DECLARATION ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERMINATION OF WORLD WAR II DECLARATION ON BALTIC ISSUES BUDAPEST DECISIONS I II III STRENGTHENING THE CSCEREGIONAL ISSUES FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPABILITIES OF THE CSCE IN CONFLICT PREVENTION AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT CODE OF CONDUCT ON POLITICO-MILITARY ASPECTS OF SECURITY FURTHER TASKS OF THE CSCE FORUM FOR SECURITY CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLES GOVERNING NON-PROLIFERATION A COMMON AND COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY MODEL FOR EUROPE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY THE HUMAN DIMENSION THE ECONOMIC DIMENSIONMEDITERRANEAN ABBREVIATIONS

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BUDAPEST SUMMIT DECLARATION
Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era

1. We, the Heads of State or Government of the States participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, have met in Budapest to assess together the recent past, to consider the present and to look to thefuture. We do so as we approach the Fiftieth Anniversary of the end of World War II and the Twentieth Anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, and as we commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2. We believe in the central role of the CSCE in building a secure and stable CSCE community, whole and free. We reaffirm the principles of the Helsinki Final Act andsubsequent CSCE documents. They reflect shared values which will guide our policies, individually and collectively, in all organizations and institutions to which we belong. 3. The CSCE is the security structure embracing States from Vancouver to Vladivostok. We are determined to give a new political impetus to the CSCE, thus enabling it to play a cardinal role in meeting the challenges of thetwenty-first century. To reflect this determination, the CSCE will henceforth be known as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). 4. The CSCE has been instrumental in overcoming barriers and in managing change throughout our region. Since we last met, there have been further encouraging developments. Most vestiges of the Cold War have disappeared. Free elections have been heldand the roots of democracy have spread and struck deeper. Yet the path to stable democracy, efficient market economy and social justice is a hard one. 5. The spread of freedoms has been accompanied by new conflicts and the revival of old ones. Warfare in the CSCE region to achieve hegemony and territorial expansion continues to occur. Human rights and fundamental freedoms are still flouted,intolerance persists and discrimination against minorities is practised. The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and ethnic tension are still widespread. Along with social and economic instability, they are among the main sources of crisis, loss of life and human misery. They reflect failure to apply the CSCE principles and commitments. This situationrequires our resolute action. We must work together to ensure full respect for these principles and commitments as well as effective solidarity and co-operation to relieve suffering. 6. We recognize that societies in the CSCE region are increasingly threatened by terrorism. We reiterate our unreserved condemnation of all acts and practices of terrorism, which cannot be justified under any circumstances.We reconfirm our determination to combat terrorism and our commitment for enhanced co-operation to eliminate this threat to security, democracy and human rights. 7. The CSCE will be a forum where concerns of participating States are discussed, their security interests are heard and acted upon. We will further enhance its role as an instrument for the integration of these States in resolving...