The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the
CSCE CSCE may refer to
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in July 1990 at Copenhagen.
[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.] It contains specific election-related commitments.
Yuri Reshetov, the head of the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart,
Max Kampelman, labelled it "a programme for democratic action".
NATO
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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."
The document was part of the legacy of President
George Bush.
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