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JEANP.FROEHLY
TheOSCE40YearsafterHelsinki:FallBackorReset?
“RecentyearshaveproventhattheOSCEcanbestronger,moreeffective,
andcanactinanimmediateanddecisivemanner.”
ForeignMinisterWitoldWaszczykowskiattheOSCEMinisterialCouncil
inBelgrade,3December20151
Morethan40yearsaftertheadoptionoftheHelsinkiFinalActin1975,
theongoingcrisisinandaroundUkrainebroughttheOrganisationfor
SecurityandCooperationinEurope(OSCE)backtothecentreofsecurity
discussions.Evenifitistooearlytodrawfinalconclusionsfromwhatmay
beconsideredthegreatestcrisisofthepost-1990Europeansecurityorder,
twomainconsequencesfortheOSCEcanalreadybehighlighted.
Ontheonehand,theorganisation’snormativeacquishasbeenprofoundly
challenged,thusraisingdoubtsaboutitslegitimacyasanorganisationof
cooperativesecuritybasedoncommonlyagreedstandardsandvalues.As
Germany’sforeignministerFrank-WalterSteinmeier,theOrganisation’s
chairmanfor2016,putsit:“Russia’sactionstowardsitsneighbourandthe
ongoingcrisisinandaroundUkrainehavecalledintoquestiontheOSCE’s
commonfundamentalprinciplesandvaluesestablishedintheHelsinkiFinal
Actin1975,intheCharterofParisandinotherkeyOSCEdocuments.”2Just
threeyearsbeforetheeventsinKyiv,headsofstateandgovernmentofthe
OSCE’sthen56participatingstateshadgatheredforasummitinAstanaand
reaffirmedimportantcommonprinciplesinacommemorativedeclaration.
1
W.Waszczykowski,Statementatthe22ndMeetingoftheOSCEMinisterialCouncilin
Belgrade,3December2015,http://www.osce.org.
2
F.-W.Steinmeier,“Foreword,”in:SecurityandHumanRights,vol.26,no.1,2015,Special
Issue,NetherlandsHelsinkiCommittee.
ThePolishQuarterlyofInternationalAffairs,2016,no.3
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