Events
20th anniversary of the Charter of Paris
When
28 October 2010 (All day)
Where
Paris
Organized by
Kazakhstan's Chairmanship of the OSCE, France's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
A commemorative event marking the 20th anniversary of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, signed on 21 November 1990.
In November 1990, just weeks after the reunification of Germany, 34 Heads of State or Government met in Paris to shape a new Europe.
There they signed the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, which heralded the advent of "democracy, peace and unity in Europe" and declared that "the era of confrontation and division of Europe has ended."
Participants at the high-level anniversary event included Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazerbayev, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas; former German Foreign Minister and the CSCE's first Chairperson-in-Office Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and former French President and one of the signatories of the Helsinki Final Act, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.