The Copenhagen Declaration is a text agreed by the

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in July 1990 at Copenhagen.BUERGENTHAL, THOMAS. “Copenhagen: A Democratic Manifesto.” World Affairs, vol. 153, no. 1, 1990, pp. 5–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20672253. Accessed 7 Jan. 2023. It contains specific election-related commitments.

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, the head of the

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delegation dubbed it the new European constitution. His American counterpart,

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, labelled it "a programme for democratic action".

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is of the opinion that "At the Copenhagen CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension, Eastern European countries (excluding Albania,which joined the CSCE process in June 1991) commit themselves to

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and to the

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." The document was part of the legacy of President

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Signatories

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References

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