Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting (Second Follow-up Meeting to the Helsinki Conference) Madrid 1983 Questions relating to Security in Europe The participating States express their determination • to exert new efforts to make detente an effective, as well as continuing. increasingly viable and comprehensive process, universal in scope, as undertaken under the Final Act; • to seek solutions to outstanding problems through peaceful means; • to fulfil consistently all the provisions under the Final Act and, in particular, strictly and unreservedly to respect and put into practice all the ten principles contained in the Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States, irrespective of their political, economic or social systems, as well as of their size, geographical location or level of economic development, including their commitment to conduct their relations with all other States in the spirit of these principles; • to develop relations of mutual co-operation, friendship and confidence, refraining from any action which, being contrary to the Final Act, might impair such relations; • to encourage genuine efforts to implement the Final Act; • to exert genuine efforts towards containing an increasing arms build-up as well as towards strengthening confidence and security and promoting disarmament. Principles They reaffirm their determination fully to respect and apply these principles and accordingly, to promote by all means, both in law and practice, their increased effectiveness. They consider that one such means could be to give legislative expression — in forms appropriate to practices and procedures specific to each country ­— to the ten principles set forth in the Final Act. They recognize it as important that treaties and agreements concluded by participating States reflect and be consonant with the relevant principles and, where appropriate, refer to them. 28