FOIA
EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTE
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010023-1
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
C
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 20, 2005
Sequence Number:
23
Case Number:
Publication Date:
July 12, 1974
Content Type:
NOTES
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CONFIDENTIAL
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#90 EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTE OCI #0598/74
t 12 July 1974
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Czechoslovakia Prepares to Normalize Relations with FRG
On July 15, Czechoslovakia's bicameral parliament will
meet in plenary session to ratify a normalization treaty
with the Federal Republic of Germany. The treaty has been
pending since last December, when Czechoslovak and West German
heads-of-state initialed it. Conservative opposition in West
Germany, most effective in the Bundesrat, delayed Bonn's
ratification until July 10.
The ratified treaty is one reflection of former
Chancellor Brandt's Ostpolitik. It normalizes diplomatic
relations between the FRG and Czechoslovakia and annuls the
repugnant Munich Pact of 1938. Although the treaty deftly
dodges the legal status of West Berlin, a major stumbling
block for German ratification, it does provide for West German
representation of West Berlin residents in consular matters.
Courts and other legal institutions, however, are not covered.
Prague's interest in normalizing relations with Bonn
has consistently centered on confirming postwar borders and
burying the hated "Munich Diktat." Economic relations will
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be little effected since West Germany is already Prague's
major western economic partner.
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