Significantly, the countries went beyond the multinational Helsinki accord of earlier this year.

The Helsinki accords called for greater understanding among nations through freedom of international movement and communications.

The Helsinki accord, which covers all of Europe, is not necessarily the model, though it could be.

The conference is being held under the framework of the Helsinki Accords and will review human rights practices in many countries.

The 1975 Helsinki accords included human rights provisions that signatory states were bound to observe.

"We certainly have supported Helsinki accords and Vienna documents in other places that deal with basic human rights," he added.

Beyond that, he has challenged Moscow to live up to the Helsinki accord on human rights, for example by giving people the freedom to emigrate.

Its name refers to the Helsinki Accords and the year of its founding.

The Helsinki accords were signed in 1975.

Cooperation on the Helsinki Accords led to several agreements on politics, economics and human rights.