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The '''Copenhagen Declaration''' is a text agreed by the [[Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe#CSCE_becomes_OSCE|CSCE]] in June 1990 at Copenhagen.<ref name="oscedoc">{{cite news |title=Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14304 |publisher=OSCE |date=29 June 1990}}</ref><ref name="ushcdoc">{{cite news |title=DOCUMENT OF THE COPENHAGEN MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE CSCE |url=https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/publications/document-copenhagen-meeting-conference-human-dimension-csce |agency=Commission on security and cooperation in Europe |publisher=U. S. Helsinki Commission |date=20 June 1990}}</ref><ref name=tb>BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS. “Copenhagen: A Democratic Manifesto.” World Affairs, vol. 153, no. 1, 1990, pp. 5–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20672253. Accessed 7 Jan. 2023.</ref> It contains specific election-related commitments.<ref name="oscepadoc">{{cite news |title=OSCE Election-related commitments, from the 1990 Copenhagen Document |url=https://www.oscepa.org/ru/dokumenty/election-observation/election-observation-reports/documents/1339-osce-election-related-commitments/file |publisher=OSCE Parliamentary Assembly |date=nd}}</ref> 

[[Yuri Reshetov]], the head of the [[Soviet]] delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart, [[Max Kampelman]], labelled it "a programme for democratic action".<ref name="rz">{{cite journal |last1=Zaagman |first1=Rob |title=FROM PROPOSITION TO PROVISION: NEGOTIATING A CSCE TEXT IN COPENHAGEN |journal=Helsinki Monitor |volume=1 |issue=3 |date=1990 |pages=31-35}}</ref>

[[NATO]] is of the opinion that "At the Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension, Eastern European countries (excluding Albania,which joined the CSCE process in June 1991) commit themselves to [[multiparty parliamentary democracy]] and to the [[rule of law]]."<ref name="natocd">{{cite news |title=Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-1EADB4C6-738EE46E/natolive/news_23642.htm |publisher=NATO |date=28 June 1990}}</ref> The document was part of the legacy of President [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]].<ref name="bush41doc">{{cite news |last1=Bush |first1=George |title=Statement on the Copenhagen Declaration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-copenhagen-declaration-the-conference-security-and-cooperation-europe |agency=UC Santa Barbara |publisher=The American Presidency Project |date=29 June 1990}}</ref>

==Signatories==
*{{flagu|Austria}},
*{{flagu|Belgium}}, 
*{{flagu|Bulgaria}}, 
*{{flagu|Canada}}, 
*{{flagu|Cyprus}}, 
*{{flagu|Czechoslovakia}}, 
*{{flagu|Denmark}}, 
*{{flagu|Finland}}, 
*{{flagu|France}}, 
*the {{flagu|German Democratic Republic}}, 
*the {{flagu|Federal Republic of Germany}}, 
*{{flagu|Greece}},
*the {{flagu|Holy See}}, 
*{{flagu|Hungary}}, 
*{{flagu|Iceland}}, 
*{{flagu|Ireland}}, 
*{{flagu|Italy}}, 
*{{flagu|Liechtenstein}}, 
*{{flagu|Luxembourg}}, 
*{{flagu|Malta}}, 
*{{flagu|Monaco}}, 
*the {{flagu|Netherlands}}, 
*{{flagu|Norway}}, 
*{{flagu|Poland}}, 
*{{flagu|Portugal}}, 
*{{flagu|Romania}}, 
*{{flagu|San Marino}}, 
*{{flagu|Spain}}, 
*{{flagu|Sweden}}, 
*{{flagu|Switzerland}}, 
*{{flagu|Turkey}}, 
*the {{flagu|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}}, 
*the {{flagu|United Kingdom}}, 
*the {{flagu|United States of America}} and 
*{{flagu|Yugoslavia}}

==References==
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