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Disadvantages Of Vienna Congress

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The Vienna Congress, which brought together all the major European powers of the time, led on 9 June 1815 to the signing of the final act of the Congress of Vienna, a document of one hundred and twenty-one articles written in three hundred leaflets throwing the foundations of a new order. Among the innovations agreed in Vienna were new rules governing diplomatic relations, such as the official titles given to the various categories of State representatives and the precedence of States in alphabetical order. These basic rules have simplified bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, becoming an ongoing process of codification of normal diplomatic relations. The biggest innovation of the Vienna Congress was the follow-up conference. After …show more content…

At the same time, it contains the outline of an international organization: Article 6 provides for periodic meetings "devoted to major interests" and the maintenance of peace. From there emerge the great congresses which punctuate the international life during the following years. Following the Vienna conference, there was a whole series of other conferences such as those of. Since the 1860s, the series of multilateral conferences has been replaced by permanent institutions, then known as the International Public Unions. They included, inter alia, the International Telegraph Union (1865), the Universal Postal Union (1874), the International Association of Railway Congress (1884) and the International Office of Public Health (1907). These unions held general assemblies rather than ad hoc conferences, had secretaries, and later general secretaries, aware of the dependence on past choices. Thanks to the agreements of 1815, Europe experienced a relative peace until the first world war. It was after this that was created the society of nations in 1919 whose Covenant was signed at Versailles and whose objectives include disarmament, the prevention of wars through the principle of collective security, the resolution of conflicts through negotiation, and overall improvement of the quality of life. In the same year, the International Labor Organization was set up,

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