Budapest Summit 1994

Held on 5 and 6 December 1994, the Budapest Summit meeting became a turning point for the CSCECSCE
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. The attending Heads of State or Government not only decided to institutionalize it and turn it into an organization, but also strengthened a number of its institutions: the Budapest Document "Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era" reinforced the role of the Chairperson-in-Office, the Secretary General, the Secretariat, the High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

The participating States also 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 United Nations Security Council resolution, to send a multi-national peacekeeping 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.