Review Confer­ences

The Review Conferences have their roots in the participating States' resolve to continue the multilateral process initiated by the first Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe and laid down in the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. They decided to organize follow-up meetings and conferences, which is how the CSCECSCE
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe process continued between 1977 and 1989.

In 1990, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe changed this process by stipulating that the follow-up meetings would occur every two years and last a maximum of three months. The Helsinki Summit 1992 brought another change, altering the name of the follow-up meetings to ‘review conferences’ and deciding that they would precede the Summit meetings.

Between the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 and the institutionalization process initiated in 1990 and consolidated in 1992, four follow-up meetings took place. After this, three subsequent Review Conferences (or ‘review meetings’, as the Budapest Document 1994 called them) took place, partially in Vienna. Their final results were completed at the venue of the Summit.

The Review Conference for the 2010 OSCE Summit in Astana (1–2 December 2010) took place in Warsaw, Vienna and Astana between September and November 2010.

Warsaw, Vienna and Astana

Warsaw, 30 September–8 October 2010
Vienna, 18–26 October 2010
Astana, 26–28 November 2010
Review Conference

Consolidated Summary of the 2010 OSCE Review Conference

Vienna and Istanbul

20 September–1 October in Vienna, and 10 November 1999 in Istanbul
Review Conference

Final Report of the 1999 OSCE Review Conference

Vienna and Lisbon

4–22 November 1996
Review Meeting

Progress Report on the Security Mode Discussion 

Progress Report on the Integration of Economic Dimension Issues

Report of the Chairman-in Office (including Rapporteurs reports)

Budapest

10 October–2 December 1994
Review Conference

This Review Conference did not yield a final document. The results of the proceedings can be found in the Summit document, Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era, adopted at the Budapest Summit in December 1994.

Helsinki

24 March–8 July 1992
Follow-up Meeting

This Follow-up Meeting did not yield a final document. The proceedings' results can be found in the Summit document, Challenges of Change, adopted at the Helsinki Summit in July 1992.

Vienna

4 November 1986–19 January 1989
Follow-up Meeting

Concluding Document of the Third Follow-up Meeting, Vienna

Madrid

11 November 1980–9 September 1983
Follow-up Meeting

Concluding Document of the Second Follow-up Meeting, Madrid

Belgrade

4 October 1977–9 March 1978
Follow-up Meeting

Concluding Document of the First Follow-up Meeting, Belgrade