0.4.1.1. Final recommendations of the Helsinki consultations, 8 June 1973

(1) The participants in the Helsinki Consultations on the question of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, representing the Governments of States listed in annex , recommend to their Governments that this Conference should be convened under the conditions specified below, concerning its organisation, agenda and the related instructions, participation, date, place, rules of procedure and financial arrangements.
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III. Co-operation in Humanitarian and other fields.

(42) With the aim of contributing to the strengthening of peace and understanding among the peoples of the participating States and to the spiritual enrichment of the human personality, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion and irrespective of their political, economic and social systems, the Committee, assisted by the appropriate Sub-committees, shall be charged with examining all possibilities of co-operation conducive to creating better conditions for increased cultural and educational exchanges, for broader dissemination of information, for contacts between people, and for the solution of humanitarian problems. In this connection, it shall nor only draw upon existing forms of co-operation, but shall also work out new ways and means appropriate to these aims.
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3. Co-operation and exchanges in the field of culture.
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(50) The Committee/Sub-Committee while considering the role of States in co-operation in the field of culture will bear in mind the contribution that national minorities or regional cultures could make to it within the framework of respect for principles referred to above.

4. Co-operation and exchanges in the field of education.
(51) The Committee/Sub-committee shall prepare proposals aimed at broadening co-operation and exchanges in the fields of education and science on a short or long-term basis. Theses proposals shall be carried out bilaterally and multilaterally as appropriate, between participating States and non-governmental bodies. The Committee/Subcommittee shall consider in particular:
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c. Encouragement of the study of the languages and civilizations of other peoples for the purpose of creating favourable conditions for promoting wider acquaintance with the culture of each country.
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(52) The Committee/Sub-Committee while considering the role of States in co-operation in the field of education will bear in mind the contribution that national minorities or regional cultures could make to it within the framework of respect for principles referred to above.

IV. Follow-up to the Conference
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6.Rules of procedure.
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(81) 9. The working languages of the Conference and of its working bodies shall be: English, French, German, Italian, Russia and Spanish.
(82) Speeches made in any of the working languages shall be interpreted inte the other working languages.
(83) 10. Any Representative may make a statement in a language other than the working languages. In this case, he shall himself provide for interpretation into one of the working languages.
(84)11. Records and decisions of the Conference shall be issued and circulated to participants in the working languages.