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CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY

Istanbul, November 1999

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III. OUR COMMON RESPONSE

THE HUMAN DIMENSION

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26. We reaffirm the importance of independent media and the free flow of information as well as the public’s access to information. We commit ourselves to take all necessary steps to ensure the basic conditions for free and independent media and unimpeded transborder and intra-State flow of information, which we consider to be an essential component of any democratic, free and open society.

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