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Speech by the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister (Bohuslav Chňoupek)

1 Dec 1981
Description: This is the transcript of a speech given by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek at the 1981 meeting of the Warsaw Pact's Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (CMFA) in Bucharest. He fully supports the Geneva negotiations between the Soviet Union and the US on intermediate-range nuclear forces. He then outlines Czechoslovak efforts towards disarmament and détente, e.g., the submission of a comprehensive program on disarmament at the UN General Assembly. At the end of his speech, Chňoupek proposes that future disarmament talks begin with confidence-building measures.

Collection: Foreign Ministers

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  • Czech (178 KB )
Document Type: Verbatim Speech
Language of Original Document: Czech
Number of Pages: 9
Cold War Period: 1980s
Persons: Chňoupek
Document Source: Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AMZV), Prague
Call Number: C.j. 016.976/81

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