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Budapest Summit marks change from CSCE to OSCE

When

5 December 1994 (All day)

Where

Budapest
At the Budapest Summit, Heads of State or Government agreed to rename the Conference to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to reflect its actual work, and they set out to strengthen a number of OSCE institutions.

The Budapest Document "Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era", reinforced the role of the Chairman-in-Office, the Secretary General, the Secretariat, the High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

The States agreed to establish a Contact Point on Roma and Sinti and asked for a full time economic expert and support staff to be incorporated into the Secretariat to promote greater effectiveness in economic activities.

In one of the biggest new challenges, the Budapest Document authorized the CSCE, with an appropriate UN Security Council resolution, to send a multi-national peace-keeping force to Nagorno-Karabakh, following agreement among the parties for cessation of the armed conflict.

Ministers agreed to start discussions on a common and comprehensive security model and formally endorsed the Code of Conduct on politico-military aspects of security. They also welcomed the expansion of the confidence- and security-building measures regime laid out in the Vienna Document 1994.