Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting (Third Follow-up Meeting to the Helsinki Conference) Vienna 1989 (…) Questions relating to Security in Europe The participating States express their determination • to build on the current positive developments in their relations in order to make detente a viable, comprehensive and genuine process, universal in scope; • to assume their responsibility fully to implement the commitments contained in the Final Act and other CSCE documents; • to intensify their efforts to seek solutions to problems burdening their relations and to strengthen safeguards for international peace and security; • to promote co-operation and dialogue among them, to ensure the effective exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms and to facilitate contacts and communication between people; • to exert new efforts to make further progress to strengthen confidence and security and to promote disarmament. Principles (1) The participating States reaffirm their commitment to all ten principles of the Final Act’s Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between participating States and their determination to respect them and put them into practice. The participating States reaffirm that all these principles are of primary significance and, accordingly, will be equally and unreservedly applied, each of them being interpreted taking into account the others. (2) They stress that respect for and full application of these principles as well as strict compliance with all CSCE commitments deriving from them are of great political importance and essential for building confidence and security as well as for the development of their friendly relations and of their co-operation in all fields. 39

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