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Paris Charter

1990 non-binding European and North American political agreement

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1990 non-binding European and North American political agreement

Field	Value
name	Charter of Paris for a New Europe
image	President Bush joins other world leaders during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe for a group... - NARA - 186422.tif
country	France
date	19–21 November 1990
venues	Palais de l'Élysée
cities	Paris
participants	West Germany Helmut Kohl
US George H. W. Bush
Austria Franz Vranitzky
Belgium Wilfried Martens
Bulgaria Georgi Atanasov
Canada Brian Mulroney
Cyprus George Vassiliou
Denmark Poul Schlüter
Spain Felipe González
Finland Mauno Koivisto
France François Mitterrand
UK Margaret Thatcher
Greece Konstantinos Mitsotakis
Hungary József Antall
Ireland Charles Haughey
Iceland Davíð Oddsson
Italy Giulio Andreotti
Liechtenstein Hans Brunhart
Luxembourg Jacques Santer
Malta Eddie Fenech Adami
Monaco Jacques Dupont
Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland
Netherlands Ruud Lubbers
Poland Wojciech Jaruzelski
Portugal Cavaco Silva
Romania Ion Iliescu
San Marino Cesare Gasperoni
Holy See Angelo Sodano
Sweden Ingvar Carlsson
Switzerland Arnold Koller
Czechoslovakia Václav Havel
Turkey Turgut Özal
USSR Mikhail Gorbachev
Yugoslavia Borisav Jović
follows	Helsinki Accords

US George H. W. Bush Austria Franz Vranitzky Belgium Wilfried Martens Bulgaria Georgi Atanasov Canada Brian Mulroney Cyprus George Vassiliou Denmark Poul Schlüter Spain Felipe González Finland Mauno Koivisto France François Mitterrand UK Margaret Thatcher Greece Konstantinos Mitsotakis Hungary József Antall Ireland Charles Haughey Iceland Davíð Oddsson Italy Giulio Andreotti Liechtenstein Hans Brunhart Luxembourg Jacques Santer Malta Eddie Fenech Adami Monaco Jacques Dupont Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland Netherlands Ruud Lubbers Poland Wojciech Jaruzelski Portugal Cavaco Silva Romania Ion Iliescu San Marino Cesare Gasperoni Holy See Angelo Sodano Sweden Ingvar Carlsson Switzerland Arnold Koller Czechoslovakia Václav Havel Turkey Turgut Özal USSR Mikhail Gorbachev Yugoslavia Borisav Jović

The Charter of Paris for a New Europe (also known as the Paris Charter) 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 from 19–21 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.

Purpose

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 the West. 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.

The Charter established an Office for Free Elections (later renamed 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.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attended the summit while undergoing a challenge to her leadership of the country's ruling Conservative Party, and it was while in Paris that she learned she had not obtained sufficient votes in the first round of the party's leadership election to be declared the winner outright, necessitating a further round of voting. Thatcher later claimed that the fact she was in Paris and unable to begin immediately rallying support was one of the factors that led to her leaving the leadership election and resigning as party leader and Prime Minister after 11 years of power.

References

(10 November 1993). "Wielding the Knife".

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