Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Soviet Union signs the Helsinki Final Act

📅 1 Augustus 1975

The USSR and 34 other states signed commitments on European security, borders, cooperation, and human rights. Moscow emphasized recognition of postwar borders; dissidents later used the human-rights...

Warsaw Pact suspends East-West troop-reduction negotiations

📅 15 December 1983

Warsaw Pact states declined to set a resumption date for negotiations on mutual troop reductions in Europe. The suspension narrowed a major arms-control forum during a period of heightened nuclear...