GERMAN PEACE TREATY
Proposal For Talks
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) > BERLIN, September 5. The East German Foreign Office announced today that.it had proposed to the Big Four and West Germany that talks should begin on preparation ot a peace treaty for Germany, the British United Press re-
ported. The announcement said that the Notes containing the proposal, sent to Britain, France, the United States and Russia, as well as West Germany, were handed to the Western embassies in Prague by the Czech Foreign Office, because East Germany has no diplomatic relations with the West.
The Note to the Sovidfe Union was accepted by the Russian Foreign Minister (Mr Gromyko) in Moscow.
East Germany proposed that an East-West German commission should be established, to discuss the problems to be solved in drawing up a jieace treaty. The Western allies and the West, German Government have rejected all proposals for East-West German talks, on the grounds that the Communist Governinent of East Germany does not represent the people.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28685, 8 September 1958, Page 11
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