The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe : : Analysis and Basic Documents, 1972-1993.

• Author: Bloed, Arie.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.; ©1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1367 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- BRIEF CSCE CHRONOLOGY -- TWO DECADES OF THE CSCE PROCESS: FROM CONFRONTATION TO CO-OPERATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The CSCE Process: Its Origin, Development and Basic Features -- 2.1. Origin and development of the CSCE Process -- 2.1.1. Origin of the CSCE -- 2.1.2. Multilateral Preparatory Talks in Helsinki 1972-1973 -- 2.1.3. Development of the process -- 2.2. The CSCE as a dynamic political process: basic features -- 2.2.1. Institutional structure of the CSCE -- 2.2.2. Decision-making process -- 2.2.3. Legal nature of CSCE commitments and documents -- 2.2.4. Pan-European character -- 2.2.5. Interlinkage -- 2.2.6. Involvement of NGOs and private citizens -- 2.3. CSCE procedures and mechanisms -- 2.3.1. Procedures and instruments for security issues -- 2.3.1.1. Berlin emergency mechanism -- 2.3.1.2. Vienna mechanism on unusual military activities -- 2.3.1.3. Peaceful settlement of disputes -- 2.3.1.4. CSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities -- 2.3.1.5. Peacekeeping operations and the Chapter VIII arrangement -- 2.3.1.6. Ad hoc CSCE Missions -- 2.3.1.7. Confidence- and Security-building Measures (CSBMs) -- 2.3.2. Human dimension mechanisms and procedures -- 2.3.2.1. General -- 2.3.2.2. The Vienna mechanism -- 2.3.2.3. The Moscow mechanism -- 3. Development of the CSCE Process since 1973 -- 3.1. The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe: 1973-1975 -- 3.1.1. The negotiations: Helsinki-Geneva-Helsinki -- 3.1.2. The Final Act of Helsinki: A Short Survey -- 3.1.2.1. Basket I: Questions relating to Security in Europe -- 3.1.2.2. Basket II: Co-operation in the Fields of Economics, Science and Technology and the Environment -- 3.1.2.3. Basket III: Co-operation in Humanitarian and Other Fields.

3.1.2.4. Basket IV: Follow-up to the Conference -- 3.2. CSCE Summit Meetings and Follow-up Meetings (1977-1992) -- 3.2.1. The Belgrade Follow-up Meeting (1977-1978) -- 3.2.2. The Madrid Follow-up Meeting (1980-1983) -- 3.2.3. The Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986-1989) -- 3.2.4. The Paris Summit Meeting (1990) -- 3.2.5. The Helsinki Follow-up and Summit Meeting (1992) -- 4. Specialized CSCE meetings -- 4.1. Meetings on military security issues -- 4.1.1. Stockholm Conference on Confidence- and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (1984-1986) -- 4.1.2. Vienna Negotiations on Confidence- and Security-building Measures (1989-1992) -- 4.1.3. Seminars on Military Doctrines (1990-1991) -- 4.1.4. Vienna Forum on Security Co-operation (since 1992) -- 4.1.5. Seminars on Other Security Issues (1992-1993) -- 4.1.6. Excursus: Vienna Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (1989-1992) -- 4.1.7. Excursus: Negotiations on the Treaty on Open Skies (1990-1992) -- 4.2. Meetings on peaceful settlement of disputes -- 4.2.1. Montreux Meeting on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (1978) -- 4.2.2. Athens Meeting on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (1984) -- 4.2.3. Valletta Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (1991) -- 4.2.4. Geneva Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (1992) -- 4.3. Meetings on economic and scientific co-operation and the environment -- 4.3.1. Scientific Forum of Hamburg (1978/1980) -- 4.3.2. Sofia Meeting on the Protection of the Environment (1989) -- 4.3.3. Bonn Conference on Economic Co-operation in Europe (1990) -- 4.3.4. Economic Forum (1993) -- 4.4. Meetings on the Mediterranean -- 4.4.1. Valletta Meeting on Co-operation in the Mediterranean (1979) -- 4.4.2. Venice Seminar on Co-operation in the Mediterranean (1984) -- 4.4.3. Palma de Mallorca Meeting on the Mediterranean (1990).

4.4.4. Mediterranean Seminar in Valletta (1993) -- 4.5. Meetings on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (including information and culture) -- 4.5.1. Ottawa Meeting on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1985) -- 4.5.2. Budapest Cultural Forum (1985) -- 4.5.3. Bern Meeting on Human Contacts (1986) -- 4.5.4. London Information Forum (1989) -- 4.5.5. Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (CHD) -- 4.5.5.1. CHD Meeting in Paris (1989) -- 4.5.5.2. CHD Meeting in Copenhagen (1990) -- 4.5.5.3. CHD Meeting in Moscow (1991) -- 4.5.6. Cracow Symposium on the Cultural Heritage (1991) -- 4.5.7. Geneva Meeting of Experts on National Minorities (1991) -- 4.5.8. Oslo Seminar of Experts on Democratic Institutions (1991) -- 4.5.9. Human Dimension Seminars (1992-1993) -- 4.5.9.1. General -- 4.5.9.2. Seminar on Tolerance (1992) -- 4.5.9.3. Seminar on Migration (1993) -- 4.5.9.4. Seminar on National Minorities (1993) -- 5. Meetings of the CSCE (Council of) Foreign Ministers -- 5.1. CSCE Tenth Anniversary Meeting (1985) -- 5.2. Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSCE participating states in New York (1990) -- 5.3. First Meeting of the Council in Berlin (June 1991) -- 5.4. Additional Meeting of the Council in Moscow (September 1991) -- 5.5. Second Meeting of the Council in Prague (January 1992) -- 5.6. Additional Meeting of the Council in Helsinki (March 1992) -- 5.7. Third Meeting of the Council in Stockholm (December 1992) -- 6. Meetings of the Committee of Senior Officials -- 7. Meetings of the CSCE Parliamentary Assembly -- 7.1. Preparatory meeting in Madrid (1991) -- 7.2. First meeting in Budapest (1992) -- 7.3. Second meeting in Helsinki (1993) -- I. DOCUMENTS OF CSCE MEETINGS -- 1. Final Recommendations of the Helsinki Consultations (1973) -- 2. Final Act of Helsinki (1975) -- 3. Concluding Document of the Follow-up Meeting of Belgrade (1978).

4. Documents of specialized meetings (1978-1980) -- 4.1. Report of the Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, Montreux (1978) -- 4.2. Report of the Meeting of Experts on Co-operation in the Mediterranean, Valletta (1978) -- 4.3. Report of the Scientific Forum, Hamburg (1980) -- 5. Concluding Document of the Follow-up Meeting of Madrid (1983) -- 6. Documents of specialized meetings (1984-1986) -- 6.1. Report of the Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, Athens (1984) -- 6.2. Venice Seminar on Economic, Scientific and Cultural Co-operation in the Mediterranean (1984) -- 6.3. Document of the Stockholm Conference on Confidence-and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (1986) -- 7. Concluding Document of the Follow-up Meeting of Vienna -- 8. Documents of specialized meetings (1989-1990) -- 8.1. Report on Conclusions and Recommendations of the Meeting on the Protection of the Environment, Sofia (1989/1990) -- 8.2. Document of the Conference on Economic Co-operation, Bonn (1990) -- 8.3. Document of the second Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, Copenhagen (1990) -- 8.4. Document of the Meeting on the Mediterranean, Palma de Mallorca (1990) -- 8.5. Vienna Document 1990 of the Negotiations on CSBMs (1990) -- 9. Communique of the New York Meeting of CSCE Foreign Ministers (1990) -- Statement on the Crisis in the Gulf -- 10. Charter of Paris for a New Europe (November 1990) -- 11. Documents of specialized meetings (1991-1992) -- 11.1 Report of the Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, Valletta (1991) -- 11.2 Document of the Symposium on the Cultural Heritage of the CSCE States, Cracow (1991) -- 11.3 Report of the CSCE Meeting of Experts on National Minorities, Geneva (1991).

11.4 Document of the third Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, Moscow (October 1991) -- 11.5 Report of the CSCE Seminar of Experts on Democratic Institutions, Oslo (November 1991) -- 11.6 Vienna Document 1992 of the Negotiations on CSBMs (March 1992) -- 12. Helsinki Document 1992: The Challenges of Change (1992) -- I. Helsinki Summit Declaration -- II. Helsinki Decisions -- 13. Documents of specialized meetings (1992-1993) -- 13.1 Chairman's Summary of the First Meeting of the Economic Forum, Prague (1993) -- 13.2 Chairman's Summary of the Mediterranean Seminar, Valletta (1993) -- 13.3 Reports of the moderators at the Human Dimension Seminar on National Minorities, Warsaw (1993) -- II. DOCUMENTS OF THE CSCE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS -- 1. First Council meeting, Berlin (1991) -- 1.1 Summary of Conclusions -- Annex 1: Letter from the Government of Albania -- Annex 2: Mechanism for consultation and co-operation with regard to emergency situations -- Annex 3: Peaceful settlement of disputes -- Annex 4: Statement on the CSCE Parliamentary Assembly -- 1.2 Guidelines concerning the procedures governing Meetings of the Council of Ministers -- 1.3 Statement on the situation in Yugoslavia -- 2. Additional Council meeting, Moscow (1991) -- 3. Second Council meeting, Prague (1992) -- 3.1 Summary of Conclusions -- Annex (Letter of Accession) -- 3.2 Prague Document on Further Development of CSCE Institutions and Structures -- Interpretative statement by Romania -- 3.3 Declaration of the CSCE Council on Non-Proliferation and Arms Transfers -- 4. Additional Council meeting, Helsinki (March 1992): Summary of Conclusions -- Interpretative statement by Azerbaijan -- 5. Third Council meeting, Stockholm (December 1992) -- Summary of Conclusions -- 5.1 Decisions -- Annex 1: The Secretary-General of the CSCE -- Annex 2: Management of Resources.

Annex 3: Letters of Czech and Slovak Republics.