We agree that the reference principles of the Pact on stability, concerning good neighbourly relations, will be the existing principles and commitments established by the UN, the CSCE and the Council of Europe, in particular those principles contained in the Helsinki Final Act, in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, in the Copenhagen document, in the Helsinki 1992 Document and the 1993 Vienna Declaration of the Council of Europe Summit, referring respectively, to inviolability of frontiers, territorial integrity and respect of existing borders, and to national minorities.
Soglašamo, da bodo kot priporočljiva načela Pakta stabilnosti glede dobrososedskih odnosov veljala obstoječa načela in obveze, ki jih določajo OZN, Konferenca za varnost in sodelovanje v Evropi in Svet Evrope, in še zlasti načela vsebovana v Helsinški sklepni listini, Pariški listini za novo Evropo, Kopenhagenskem dokumentu, Helsinškem dokumentu iz 1992 in Dunajski izjavi z vrha Sveta Evrope iz 1993, ki se nanaša na nedotakljivost meja, ozemeljsko celovitost in spoštovanje obstoječih meja, in na narodne manjšine.