Petersberg Declaration

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political declaration security and defence policy document

The Petersberg Declaration is a 1992 statement by the Western European Union that defined a range of military and humanitarian tasks for European security and defense cooperation, later forming a core part of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy.

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political declaration → security and defence policy document →
adoptedAt	Petersberg Hotel →
adoptedNear	Bonn →
aimedAt	enabling European-led military operations → strengthening European crisis-management capabilities → supporting Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe operations → supporting United Nations operations →
appliesTo	Western European Union member states →
author	Western European Union →
category	1992 in international relations → European Union security policy →
codifiedIn	Treaty of Amsterdam →
context	post-Cold War European security environment →
countryOfAdoption	Germany →
dateAdopted	1992-06-19 →
defines	Petersberg tasks →
followedBy	Amsterdam Treaty provisions on Petersberg tasks →
hasEffectOn	EU crisis management operations → EU military missions outside the EU →
hasPart	Petersberg tasks →
influenced	Common Security and Defence Policy → European Security and Defence Policy →
language	English → French →
legalStatus	politically binding declaration →
partOf	European security architecture →
placeOfOrigin	Petersberg, near Bonn →
publisher	Western European Union →
region	Europe →
relatedTo	European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy → North Atlantic Treaty Organization → Western European Union →
scope	humanitarian tasks → military tasks → peace-making tasks → peacekeeping tasks → rescue tasks → tasks of combat forces in crisis management →
subject	European security and defence cooperation → crisis management → humanitarian operations → peacekeeping → peacemaking →
year	1992 →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Western European Union →	adopted
Petersberg Tasks →	legalBasis