OSCE press release on the conference ‘From Geneva to Helsinki: founding process and core purpose of the OSCE’
Bern, 03.09.2026 — Fifty-one years after the Helsinki Final Act was adopted, the Swiss OSCE Chairpersonship brought together political leaders, diplomats, historians and experts in Bern to reflect on the origins of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) – the predecessor organisation of today’s OSCE – and the relevance of its founding principles for European security today and tomorrow. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ignazio Cassis, and the OSCE Secretary-General, Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu, also took part in the conference.
In connection with this conference, which was organised by the FDFA in collaboration with the Dodis research centre (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland), the OSCE has published a press release, which is available via the following link: