This conference is a commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Helsinki Accords. On August 1, 1975 President Gerald Ford, Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, and the leaders of many European ...

Let’s use this occasion to pull together, to defend our rights and freedoms, to strengthen democratic institutions and norms, to be ambitious and rise to the challenge we have received from those who, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for the confiscation of Russian assets and said the leadership in Moscow is "mentally stuck in another century" as officials and politicians gathered ...

In the middle of the Cold War, countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain agreed on a set of common fundamental values. Switzerland played a “leading role” in mediating between the blocs on human ...

The Pope recalled the key role played by the Church in ending Cold War, particularly by Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, JPII's Secretary of State. "Today, more than ever, it is essential to safeguard ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts as he marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, the landmark Cold War-era agreement ...

Saudi Arabia is discussing a non-aggression pact modeled after the Helsinki Accords between Iran and Middle Eastern countries following the end of the Iran war, the Financial Times (FT) reported on ...

The Helsinki Final Act, also known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki Declaration, was the document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in ...