Negotiating One's Own Demise? The GDR's Foreign Ministry and the CSCE Negotiations
CWIHP e-Dossier No. 17
Documents from the German Democratic Republic Foreign Ministry archives describing East Berlin's perceptions of the negotiations leading up to the Helsinki Final Act.
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Proposals for Further Measures Concerning European Security
Current Essential questions in the Soviet Union's Politics of Ensuring European Security
Working Material for the Preparation of a European Security Conference
Attitudes and Measures of the Warsaw Treaty States for Convening a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1970-1971
Factor Analysis Concerning the State of Preparation for a European Security Conference
About Some Current Questions Concerning the Multilateral Preparations for the European Security Conference
Notes about a Conversation with the USSR's Ambassador, Comrade Malzev, on 22 November 1972
Possible Ideas for the Introduction of a Submission in the Politburo
Notes on a conversation between the GDR and FRG Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Otto Winzer and Walter Scheel, on 3 July 1973
Notes of a Conversation between Comrade Winzer and the Foreign Minister of the FRG, Walter Scheel, on 7 July 1973, 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Finlandia Hall
Report for Minister Winzer's Office: The Course and the Results of the first phase of the European Security Conference, 23 July 1973
Assessment of the proposal by the FRG delegation regarding the principles of prohibiting the threat or use of force, the inviolability of frontiers, and the territorial integrity of states, submitted on 26 September 1973
Notes on a Conversation with Vortragendem Legationsrat 1st Class Dr. Blech, 19 August 1974
Notes on a Conversation with the Head of the FRG's Delegation, Dr. Blech, During Lunch on 18 December 1974
Material for Discussion in the "Permanent Commission on Issues of European Security"
The CSCE--An Era of Dissent and Consensus By Siegfried Bock
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