20 years of the Copenhagen Document

In this issue:

+ 20 years of the Copenhagen Document
+ The OSCE and its partners
+ Ban Ki-moon, Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Thorbjorn Jagland on co-operating with the OSCE
+ Interview with OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut

The OSCE’s co-operation with other organizations and
institutions is a key topic of the discussions on the future of European security in the Corfu Process, which have continued to intensively engage delegates during the past months.

This issue of the OSCE Magazine focuses on the Organization’s external co-operation, featuring contributions by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland.

An interview with Secretary General Marc Perrin de
Brichambaut and an overview of the OSCE’s interaction with
other organizations inside and outside its region by Oleksandr Pavlyuk, who heads external co-operation in the Secretariat, are followed by illustrations of the different forms this interaction takes — leading a global alliance against human trafficking, acting as a partner in an environmental coalition, promoting standards developed by organizations specialized in fields such as container security, or supporting the work of sub-regional organizations, such as police coalitions in South-
Eastern Europe or the Central Asian International Fund for
Saving the Aral Sea.

Important OSCE achievements in each of the three security
dimensions mark their 20th anniversary in 2010: the
Bonn Document on Economic Co-operation on 11 April 2010, the
Document of the Copenhagen Conference on the Human
Dimension on 29 June 2010 and the Vienna Document 1990 —
the first version of the Organization’s current agreement on
military confidence - and security-building measures — on 17
November 2010, followed by the Charter of Paris for a New Europe on 21 November 2010.

This issue of OSCE Magazine pays tribute to the Copenhagen Document with a series of articles highlighting how this breakthrough document, which inextricably links human rights with democracy and the rule of law, continues to set the agenda in the areas of good governance, criminal and administrative justice, minority rights and election
observation.