Cold War - Helsinki Agreements, 1975
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- Helsinki Agreements, 1975
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- All country boundaries were accepted - East and West Germany accepted each others existence for the first time
- All disputes were to be settled peacefully, not by use of force or threats. If necessary through the UN
- Countries would inform each other about large military manoeuvres and would allow representatives from other countries to observe them
- No country would interfere in the internal affairs of another country
- Co-operation
- economic co-operation through trade
- the USSR and USA would trade together, USA buying oil from the USSR and the USSR buying wheat from the USA
- scientific co-operation
- sharing information and research for example in medicine or space research
- Industrial co-operation
- setting the same standards and running joint industrial projects
- Educational co-operation
- for example learning languages and student exchanges
- economic co-operation through trade
- Human Rights
- countries should respect human rights
- freedom of speech
- freedom of infotmation
- freedom of religion
- freedom of movement
- Facts
- representatives from 35 countries
- all of Europe (except Andorra and Albania), the USSR, USA and Canada
- Discussed an agreement that took two years to draft
- Terms applied to everyone
- representatives from 35 countries
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