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PAGE: 1. (a) Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States [go to this PAGE]
... Declare their determination to respect and put into
practice, each of them in its relations with all other
participating States, irrespective of their political, economic
or social systems as well as of their size, geographical location
or level of economic development, the following principles, which
all are of primary significance, guiding their mutual relations: ...
PAGE: I. Sovereign equality, respect for the rights inherent in sovereignty [go to this PAGE]
... The participating States will respect each other's sovereign
equality and individuality as well as all the rights inherent in
and encompassed by its sovereignty, including in particular the
right of every State to juridical equality, to territorial
integrity and to freedom and political independence. They will
also respect each other's right freely to choose and develop its
political, social, economic and cultural systems as well as its
right to determine its laws and regulations. ...
... The participating States will respect each other's sovereign
equality and individuality as well as all the rights inherent in
and encompassed by its sovereignty, including in particular the
right of every State to juridical equality, to territorial
integrity and to freedom and political independence. They will
also respect each other's right freely to choose and develop its
political, social, economic and cultural systems as well as its
right to determine its laws and regulations. ...
... Within the framework of international law, all the
participating States have equal rights and duties. They will
respect each other's right to define and conduct as it wishes its
relations with other States in accordance with international law
and in the spirit of the present Declaration. They consider that
their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international
law, by peaceful means and by agreement. They also have the right
to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be
or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties
including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of
alliance; they also have the right to neutrality. ...
PAGE: IV. Territorial integrity of States [go to this PAGE]
... The participating States will respect the territorial
integrity of each of the participating States. ...
PAGE: VII. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief
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... VII. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief ...
... The participating States will respect human rights and
fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought,
conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to
race, sex, language or religion. ...
... Within this framework the participating States will
recognize and respect the freedom of the individual to profess
and practice, alone or in community with others, religion or
belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own
conscience. ...
... The participating States on whose territory national
minorities exist will respect the right of persons belonging to
such minorities to equality before the law, will afford them the
full opportunity for the actual enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms and will, in this manner, protect their
legitimate interests in this sphere. ...
... The participating States recognize the universal
significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect
for which is an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-
being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations
and co-operation among themselves as among all States. ...
... They will constantly respect these rights and freedoms in
their mutual relations and will endeavour jointly and separately,
including in co-operation with the United Nations, to promote
universal and effective respect for them. ...
... They will constantly respect these rights and freedoms in
their mutual relations and will endeavour jointly and separately,
including in co-operation with the United Nations, to promote
universal and effective respect for them. ...
PAGE: VIII. Equal rights and self-determination of peoples [go to this PAGE]
... The participating States will respect the equal rights of
peoples and their right to self-determination, acting at all
times in conformity with the purposes and principles of the
Charter of the United Nations and with the relevant norms of
international law, including those relating to territorial
integrity of States. ...
... The participating States reaffirm the universal significance
of respect for and effective exercise of equal rights and self-
determination of peoples for the development of friendly
relations among themselves as among all States; they also recall
the importance of the elimination of any form of violation of
this principle. ...
PAGE: X. Fulfilment in good faith of obligations under international law [go to this PAGE]
... The participating States express their determination fully
to respect and apply these principles, as set forth in the
present Declaration, in all aspects, to their mutual relations
and co-operation in order to ensure to each participating State
the benefits resulting from the respect and application of these
principles by all. ...
... The participating States express their determination fully
to respect and apply these principles, as set forth in the
present Declaration, in all aspects, to their mutual relations
and co-operation in order to ensure to each participating State
the benefits resulting from the respect and application of these
principles by all. ...
... The participating States express the conviction that respect
for these principles will encourage the development of normal and
friendly relations and the progress of co-operation among them in
all fields. They also express the conviction that respect for
these principles will encourage the development of political
contacts among them which in time would contribute to better
mutual understanding of their positions and views. ...
... The participating States express the conviction that respect
for these principles will encourage the development of normal and
friendly relations and the progress of co-operation among them in
all fields. They also express the conviction that respect for
these principles will encourage the development of political
contacts among them which in time would contribute to better
mutual understanding of their positions and views. ...
PAGE: (b) Matters related to giving effect to certain of the above Principles (i) (ii) [go to this PAGE]
... Reaffirming that they will respect and give effect to
refraining from the threat or use of force and convinced of the
necessity to make it an effective norm of international life, ...
... Declare that they are resolved to respect and carry out, in
their relations with one another, inter alia, the following
provisions which are in conformity with the Declaration on
Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States: ...
... To promote, by all means which each of them considers
appropriate, a climate of confidence and respect among
peoples consonant with their duty to refrain from propaganda
for wars of aggression or for any threat or use of force
inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations and
with the Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between
Participating States, against another participating State.
...
PAGE: I Prior notification of major military manoeuvres Prior notification of other military manoeuvres Exchange of observers
Prior notification of major military movements Other confidence-building measures [go to this PAGE]
... In order to make a fuller contribution to their common
objective of confidence/building, the participating States, when
conducting their military activities in the area covered by the
provisions for the prior notification of major military
manoeuvres, will duly take into account and respect this
objective. ...
PAGE: III General considerations [go to this PAGE]
... Respect for the security interests of all States
participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in
Europe inherent in their sovereign equality;
...
PAGE: Co-operation in the Field of Economics, of Science and Technology and of the Environment [go to this PAGE]
... Recognizing that such co-operation, with due regard for the
different levels of economic development, can be developed, on
the basis of equality and mutual satisfaction of the partners,
and of reciprocity permitting, as a whole, an equitable
distribution of advantages and obligations of comparable scale,
with respect for bilateral and multilateral agreements, ...
... Considering that the guidelines and concrete recommendations
contained in the following texts are aimed at promoting further
development of their mutual economic relations, and convinced
that their co-operation in this field should take place in full
respect for the principles guiding relations among participating
States as set forth in the relevant document, ...
PAGE: Marketing [go to this PAGE]
... will encourage the improvement of conditions for the
implementation of measures to promote trade and to satisfy the
needs of users in respect of imported products, in particular
through market research and advertising measures as well as,
where useful, the establishment of supply facilities, the
furnishing of spare parts, the functioning of after sales
services, and the training of the necessary local technical
personnel; ...
PAGE: 2. Industrial co-operation and projects of common interest Industrial co-operation [go to this PAGE]
... consider it desirable to further improve conditions for the
implementation of industrial co-operation projects, in particular
with respect to: ...
PAGE: Forms and methods of co-operation [go to this PAGE]
... through their participation in particular international
scientific and technological co-operation programmes, including
those of UNESCO and other international organizations, pursuit of
continuing progress towards the objectives of such programmes,
notably those of UNISIST with particular respect to information
policy guidance, technical advice, information contributions and
data processing.
...
PAGE: 6. Co-operation in other areas Development of transport [go to this PAGE]
... declare themselves in favour, with due respect for their
rights and international commitments, of the elimination of
disparities arising from the legal provisions applied to traffic
on inland waterways which are subject to international
conventions and, in particular, of the disparity in the
application of those provisions; and to this end invite the
member States of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the
Rhine, of the Danube Commission and of other bodies to develop
the work and studies now being carried out, in particular within
the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; ...
... express their willingness, with a view to improving
international rail transport and with due respect for their
rights and international commitments, to work towards the
elimination of difficulties arising from disparities in existing
international legal provisions governing the reciprocal railway
transport of passengers and goods between their territories; ...
PAGE: Co-operation in Humanitarian and Other Fields [go to this PAGE]
... Convinced that this co-operation should take place in full
respect for the principles guiding relations among participating
States as set forth in the relevant document, ...
PAGE: (c) Science [go to this PAGE]
... considering in due course what further steps might be taken
with respect to the "Scientific Forum".
...