ABSTRACT
As a participant to those negotiations that ultimately led us to the Stockholm document, this chapter considers those verification provisions and confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) mentioned in the Stockholm document. Numerous detailed provisions set the standard for carrying out an inspection; they refer to the content of a request, to board and lodging, to the equipment of inspectors, to rights and duties of the inspecting and of the receiving state. Inspection reports would suggest that the will to apply the verification provisions in conformity with the agreement prevailed in all 18 inspections. However, rumors that surfaced occasionally indicated that the way and the manner in which some inspections were conducted did not always reflect the spirit of the agreement. It can be assumed that—on the premise of continuously though presumably slowly improving international relations—the oncoming negotiations on CSBMs in Vienna might deal also with further developing and tightening provisions on inspection.
