Paris Charter

Charter of Paris for a New Europe
Host countryFrance
Date19–21 November 1990
Venue(s)Palais de l'Elysee
CitiesParis
Participants Helmut Kohl
George H. W. Bush
Franz Vranitzky
Wilfried Martens
Georgi Atanasov
Brian Mulroney
George Vassiliou
Poul Schlüter
Felipe González
Mauno Koivisto
François Mitterrand
Margaret Thatcher
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
József Antall
Charles Haughey
Davíð Oddsson
Giulio Andreotti
Hans Brunhart
Jacques Santer
Eddie Fenech Adami
Jacques Dupont
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Ruud Lubbers
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Mário Soares
Ion Iliescu
Cesare Gasperoni
Angelo Sodano
Ingvar Carlsson
Arnold Koller
Václav Havel
Turgut Özal
Mikhail Gorbachev
Borisav Jović
FollowsHelsinki Accords

The Charter of Paris for a New Europe (also known as the Paris Charter) was adopted by a summit meeting of most European governments in addition to those of Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union, in Paris from 19–21 November 1990. The charter was established on the foundation of the Helsinki Accords and was further amended in the 1999 Charter for European Security. Together, these documents form the agreed basis for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. However, not all OSCE member countries have signed the treaty.