The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization, covering fifty-seven member states, including all Europeans, the Russian Federation, Central Asian countries, Mongolia, the United States of America , Canada and 13 more partners for Asia and the Mediterranean cooperation.
Portugal participated in its formation process, in 1975, as one of the thirty-five signatories to the Helsinki Final Act that establishes the principles by which it is governed. And it was also part of the original group of signatory countries, in 1990, of the “Paris Charter for a new Europe”, adopted following the end of the Soviet Union.
