The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the
CSCE 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 Yuri may refer to:
People and fictional characters
Given name
* Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc.
* Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine J ...
, 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 national ...
delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart,
Max Kampelman
Max Kampelman (born Max Kampelmacher; November 7, 1920 – January 25, 2013) was an American diplomat.
Biography
Kampelman was born in New York, New York to Jewish Austrian immigrant parents on 7 November 1920. He grew up in the Bronx, New York ...
, 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
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in co ...
and to the
rule of law."
The document was part of the legacy of President
George Bush
George Bush most commonly refers to:
* George H. W. Bush (1924–2018), 41st president of the United States and father of the 43rd president
* George W. Bush (born 1946), 43rd president of the United States and son of the 41st president
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