Copenhagen Declaration Explained

The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the CSCE in June 1990 at Copenhagen.^{[1] [2] [3]} It contains specific election-related commitments.^[4]

Yuri Reshetov, the head of the Soviet delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart, Max Kampelman, labelled it "a programme for democratic action".^[5]

NATO is of the opinion that "At the Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension, Eastern European countries (excluding Albania,which joined the CSCE process in June 1991) commit themselves to multiparty parliamentary democracy and to the rule of law."^[6] The document was part of the legacy of President George Bush.^[7]

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Notes and References

1. News: Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE . OSCE . 29 June 1990.
2. News: DOCUMENT OF THE COPENHAGEN MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE CSCE . Commission on security and cooperation in Europe . U. S. Helsinki Commission . 20 June 1990.
3. BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS. “Copenhagen: A Democratic Manifesto.” World Affairs, vol. 153, no. 1, 1990, pp. 5–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20672253. Accessed 7 Jan. 2023.
4. News: OSCE Election-related commitments, from the 1990 Copenhagen Document . OSCE Parliamentary Assembly . nd.
5. Zaagman . Rob . FROM PROPOSITION TO PROVISION: NEGOTIATING A CSCE TEXT IN COPENHAGEN . Helsinki Monitor . 1 . 3 . 1990 . 31-35.
6. News: Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension . NATO . 28 June 1990.
7. News: Bush . George . Statement on the Copenhagen Declaration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . UC Santa Barbara . The American Presidency Project . 29 June 1990.