Helsinki Final Act was a document signed by 35 nations Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Helsinki in 1975.
The document was at the time considered a mile-stone of detente between the east and the west.
All sides considered themselves as the winners of the agreement. In the west, acknowledgement of human rights as a valid issue by the east was considered a major coup, while the east thought that confirmation of existing borders as inviolable was a great relief. And the neutral and non-aligned countries of course delighted in the pure fact of such a major act of detente coming about at all.
