The principles of the Helsinki Final Act are outdated and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) needs a new fundamental document that would take into account new realities, a Russian expert told RIA Novosti.

The Helsinki Final Act, also known as Helsinki Accords, was the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe held in Helsinki, Finland in 1975. It laid the foundations of modern European security architecture.

On an initiative from current OSCE presidency Kazakhstan, the decision was made to hold an OSCE summit in the country's capital Astana this year. The summit is to consider the organization's reform.

"It was a revolutionary document that stabilized the situation; however, today the Helsinki principles do not work, as the bombing of Yugoslavia and Kosovo's secession showed," Yevgeny Minchenko, the director of Russia's International Political Expert Evaluation Institute, said.

"It's evident that today we need Helsinki [Act]-2," he said.

Minchenko said the document was adopted during a confrontation between blocs that does not exist today. Besides, the expert said, new threats emerged - international terrorism, drug trafficking and humanitarian problems.

"A new act taking into account new realities, threats and problems is needed," he said.

MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti)