Helsinki Accords

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Helsinki Accords

A 1975 international agreement that dramatically reduced tensions between the United States and allies and Soviet bloc nations. The Accords effectively recognized Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe in exchange for assurances that the Soviet Union would improve its human rights record. Canada, the United States and all European countries except Andorra and Albania signed the Helsinki Accords. It was seen as a first step toward improved Soviet-Western relations.

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Professor Mawardi presented to the participants the specificities of the case of Aceh, which was granted autonomous region status in 2005 under the Helsinki Agreement. The expert regretted that the "Movement for a Free Aceh" (GAM), a former armed rebel group, had rejected the autonomy proposal made by the Indonesian government several years earlier, before finally accepting it.

Morocco : Indonesian Expert Calls on 'Polisario' to Take Inspiration from Aceh's Case & to Abandon Independence Option in Favor of Autonomy

He pointed out that he was also involved in peace negotiations between Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) and the Indonesian government in 2015 which led to the signing of the Helsinki agreement.

Ramasamy agrees to meet Mujahid, Perlis mufti on LTTE and Dr Zakir Naik

This sounds a lot like a Gulf-anchored, Middle East-wide version of the Helsinki agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective camps in 1975.

How to end the Saudi-Iranian rift

Contrary to the critics, the commitments in the Helsinki agreement provided the basis, first for opposition movements in Communist states, and subsequently for actual changes in Soviet and Soviet satellite practices.

Helsinki and human rights

the Helsinki Agreement, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

IRFS: Authorities Toughen Penalties for Libel on the Eve of Presidential Elections

When the USSR broke up in 1990 the disintegration did not theoretically affect the Helsinki agreement, because the USSR had been 15 countries in a union, with each country having its own Supreme Soviet (for example).

Editorial comment

The Helsinki agreement, signed in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, on Saturday, includes commitments to outlaw armed groups and respect the judiciary's independence.

Iraqis sign reconciliation pact

The Helsinki agreement, which was hammered out over meetings in September and April, was signed by 33 politicians from Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, Turkmen, Communist and other parties.

Document governs Iraq reconciliation course, NYT reveals

The Vietnam War was finally over and the Helsinki Agreement - marking the seeming end of the Cold War - had been signed.

The sun shone and shone

The Helsinki Agreement also was widely viewed as the beginning of the communism collapse in USSR and Eastern Europe.

Gerald R. Ford America's "Public Man

Drawing on the example of the Helsinki Agreement negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1975, leaders such as Southern Baptist executive Richard Land and Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson said similar talks with North Korea could result in progress for human rights.

Conservative Christians urge negotiation with North Korea. (Nation)

Britain now insists an exchange of information among tax authorities is the only way to meet the Helsinki agreement that "all citizens resident in a Member State of the EU should pay the tax due on all their savings income".