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The
Charter of Paris for a New Europe was adopted by a summit meeting of most
European governments in addition to those of
Canada, the
United States and the
Soviet Union, in
Paris on
21 November 1990. The charter was established on the foundation of the
Helsinki Accords, and was further amended in the 1999
Charter for European Security. Together, these documents form the agreed basis for the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. However not all OSCE member countries have signed the treaty.
The Charter was one of many attempts to seize the opportunity of the
fall of Communism by actively inviting the former
Eastern bloc-countries into the ideological framework of
western civilisation. It has been compared to the
Conference of Versailles of
1919 or the
Congress of Vienna of
1815 in its grandiose ambition to reshape Europe. In effect, the Paris Summit was the
peace conference of the
Cold War:
Perestroika had ultimately put an end to the ideological and political division of the
Iron Curtain. Pluralist
democracy and
market economy were together with
international law and
multilateralism seen as the victors, and as the common values and principles of national and international conduct that now ruled from
Vancouver to
Vladivostok.
The Charter established an
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in
Warsaw, a
Conflict Prevention Centre in
Vienna, and a secretariat. Later, in
1992, a Secretary General was also appointed. It was agreed that the Foreign Ministers are to convene regularly for political consultations.
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