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.
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