Helsinki Summit - Beginning of Stage III of the CSCE negotiations
When
30 July 1975 (All day)
Where
Helsinki
Erich Honecker (l) of the German Democratic Republic and Helmut Schmidt of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki in 1975. (Bundesarchiv)
The beginning of the 1975 Helsinki Summit marked the conclusion of the formative stages of the CSCE.
At the end of the summit on 1 August 1975, participating States signed the Final Act, or Helsinki Accords, which laid the foundations for the work of the CSCE/OSCE, outlining a number of politically binding commitments relating to politico-military, environmental and economic, and human aspects of security.