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Signing of the Helsinki Final Act

1 August 1975
  • East meets West: US President Gerald Ford and USSR General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev (with translator Viktor Sukhodrev at his ear) at Helsinki 1975. Flanking them are Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (l) and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (r). (Gerald R. Ford Library)
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  • The Helsinki Final Act negotiators, the Foreign Ministers of the CSCE participating States, at the first Helsinki meeting in 1973. (Bundesarchiv)
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  • Leonid Brezhnev, General-Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, signing the Final Act, with Turkey's Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel to the left, Helsinki, 1 August 1975. (AKG Photo Berlin)
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  • L-r: Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Gerald Ford President of the United States, Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria, Helsinki, 1 August 1975. (Bundesarchiv/Horst Sturm)
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  • 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)
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