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provisions of the Final Act of the Conference in order to give full effect to its results and thus
to further the process of improving security and developing co-operation in Europe,
Convinced that, in order to achieve the aims sought by the Conference, they should make further unilateral, bilateral and multilateral efforts and continue, in the appropriate forms set
forth below, the multilateral process initiated by the Conference,
1. Declare their resolve, in the period following the Conference, to pay due regard to and implement the provisions of the Final Act of the Conference:
(a) unilaterally, in all cases which lend themselves to such action;
(b) bilaterally, by negotiations with other participating States;
(c) multilaterally, by meetings of experts of the participating States, and also within the
framework of existing international organizations, such as the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe and UNESCO, with regard to educational, scientific and cultural
co-operation;
2. Declare furthermore their resolve to continue the multilateral process initiated by the
Conference:
(a) by proceeding to a thorough exchange of views both on the implementation of the provisions of the Final Act and of the tasks defined by the Conference, as well as, in the context of
the questions dealt with by the latter, on the deepening of their mutual relations, the improvement of security and the development of co-operation in Europe, and the development of the
process of détente in the future;
(b) by organizing to these ends meetings among their representatives, beginning with a meeting at the level of representatives appointed by the Ministers of foreign Affairs. This meeting
will define the appropriate modalities for the holding of other meetings which could include
further similar meetings and the possibility of a new Conference;
3. The first of the meetings indicated above will be held at Belgrade in 1977. A preparatory
meeting to organize this meeting will be held at Belgrade on 15 June 1977. The preparatory
meeting will decide on the date, duration, agenda and other modalities of the meeting of representatives appointed by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs;
4. The rules of procedure, the working methods and the scale of distribution for the expenses
of the Conference will, mutatis mutandis, be applied to the meetings envisaged in paragraphs
1 (c), 2 and 3 above. All the above-mentioned meetings will be held in the participating States
in rotation. The services of a technical secretariat will be provided by the host country.
The original of this Final Act, drawn up in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and
Spanish, will be transmitted to the Government of the Republic of Finland, which will retain
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