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The Helsinki Final Act, also known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki Declaration was the document signed at the closing meeting of the third part of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki, Finland, during 30 July – 1 August 1975.

All then-existing European countries as well as United States and Canada, altogether 35 participating states, signed the Final Act in an attempt to improve the détente between the Soviet bloc and the West.

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  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0801-026, Helsinki, KSZE-Konferenz, Schlussakte

    Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Erich Honecker, US president Gerald Ford and Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky

  • Henry Kissinger, Leonid Brezhnev, President Gerald Ford, and Andrei Gromyko

    From left is Kissinger, Brezhnev, Ford, and Gromyko outside of the American Embassy, Helsinki, Finland, 1975.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Conferencia sobre la Seguridad y la Cooperación en Europa para niños

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