Copenhagen Declaration

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The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the CSCE in June 1990 at Copenhagen.{{cite news |title=Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14304 |publisher=OSCE |date=29 June 1990}}{{cite news |title=DOCUMENT OF THE COPENHAGEN MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE CSCE |url=https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/publications/document-copenhagen-meeting-conference-human-dimension-csce |agency=Commission on security and cooperation in Europe |publisher=U. S. Helsinki Commission |date=20 June 1990}}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.{{cite news |title=OSCE Election-related commitments, from the 1990 Copenhagen Document |url=https://www.oscepa.org/ru/dokumenty/election-observation/election-observation-reports/documents/1339-osce-election-related-commitments/file |publisher=OSCE Parliamentary Assembly |date=nd}}

Yuri Reshetov, the head of the Soviet delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart, Max Kampelman, labelled it "a programme for democratic action".{{cite journal |last1=Zaagman |first1=Rob |title=FROM PROPOSITION TO PROVISION: NEGOTIATING A CSCE TEXT IN COPENHAGEN |journal=Helsinki Monitor |volume=1 |issue=3 |date=1990 |pages=31-35}}

NATO 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."{{cite news |title=Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-1EADB4C6-738EE46E/natolive/news_23642.htm |publisher=NATO |date=28 June 1990}} The document was part of the legacy of President George Bush.{{cite news |last1=Bush |first1=George |title=Statement on the Copenhagen Declaration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-copenhagen-declaration-the-conference-security-and-cooperation-europe |agency=UC Santa Barbara |publisher=The American Presidency Project |date=29 June 1990}}