Vienna Document
The Vienna Document 2011 of the Negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures (WD 11) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is a politically binding agreement of all 57 OSCE member states on transparency and confidence-building with validity in the area from the Atlantic to the Urals and in Central Asia to the Chinese border.
background
The document describes confidence-building measures in order to achieve disarmament and to refrain from the threat and use of force in mutual relations. It was signed by the OSCE members for the first time in 1990 and revised or supplemented in 1992, 1994, 1999 and 2011.
The confidence-building measures are mutual visits by observers and military personnel and the exchange of information on the number, stationing and movement of military troops, organization, weapons, military ships, military aircraft and military helicopters of the contracting states.
The Vienna Document can be understood as a measure within the framework of “Conventional Arms Control within the OSCE”.
Germany
The Center for Verification Tasks of the Federal Armed Forces (ZVBw) in the Selfkant barracks in Geilenkirchen plans, coordinates and realizes all missions abroad according to the Vienna Document with German participation, ensures the proper execution of WD missions of other contracting states in the Federal Republic of Germany, provides that management and technical personnel required for these tasks and evaluates the results of the inspection and verification visits.
Web links
- Vienna Document 2011 (text of the treaty on the OSCE website): (German; PDF, 210 KB) (other languages)
- Vienna Document 2011 , Federal Foreign Office Germany
Individual evidence
- ^ Vienna Document: Trust through Transparency. Foreign Office Germany, April 28, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2014 .