Lisbon Summit
When
2 December 1996 (All day)
Where
Lisbon
File photo of the OSCE 1996 Summit in Lisbon. (Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev) Photo details
In the Portuguese capital, Heads of State adopted the Lisbon Declaration on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe for the Twenty-First Century, outlining security challenges and possibilities for co-operative approaches to meeting them.
In the Summit document, the OSCE welcomed Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus' removal of nuclear warheads from their territories. It also adopted a Framework for Arms Control, designed to create a web of interlocking and mutually reinforcing commitments in the area of arms control and confidence- and security-building measures.