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Speech by the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister (Bohuslav Chňoupek)

5 Dec 1979
Description: This is the transcript of a speech of the Czechoslovak foreign minister given at the 1979 meeting of the Warsaw Pact's Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (CMFA) in Berlin. He condemns the US for the planned deployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe. As far as the upcoming CSCE conference in Madrid is concerned, Czechoslovakia and the neutral European states (Austria, Yugoslavia, and Malta) are in favor of proposing concrete confidence-building measures. At the end of his speech, the foreign minister outlines the importance of the 25th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact.

Collection: Foreign Ministers

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  • Czech (188 KB )
Document Type: Verbatim Speech
Language of Original Document: Czech
Number of Pages: 9
Cold War Period: 1970s
Persons: Chňoupek, Brezhnev, Gromyko
Document Source: Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AMZV), Prague
Call Number: C.j. 018.564/79

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