Budapest Document 1994
1994년 부다페스트 문서
The Budapest Document is the set of decisions adopted at the December 1994 CSCE summit in Budapest. It renamed the CSCE as the OSCE from 1 January 1995, while explicitly stating that the change altered neither the character of existing CSCE commitments nor the status of the CSCE and its institutions.
In depth
Under the title “Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era,” the document advanced the institutionalization of the CSCE and strengthened the roles of the Chairperson-in-Office, the Secretary General and Secretariat, the High Commissioner on National Minorities, and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. It also endorsed a Code of Conduct on politico-military aspects of security and authorized a multinational peacekeeping force for Nagorno-Karabakh subject to an appropriate United Nations Security Council resolution. The renaming did not turn the CSCE into an organization with international legal personality: OSCE decisions and commitments retained their political character.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) (supports the 1994 Budapest conference decision to rename CSCE as OSCE effective 1 January 1995)
- osce.org (official OSCE source supporting that the name change altered neither the character of CSCE commitments nor the status of the CSCE and its institutions)
- osce.org (official OSCE summit page identifying the Budapest Document, its date, institutional decisions, and substantive measures)