Reprisals warning
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) EAST BERLIN, August 12. East Germany, unrepentant about disrupting transit traffic between West Germany and West Berlin, has indirectly threatened reprisals if West Germany retaliates with economic countermeasures. The official news agency, A.D.N. quotes West German press reports as saying that the Bonn Government is considering not renewing the interest-free overdraft granted to East Germany in the framework of preferential inter-German trade. The present agreement expires at tfie end of 1975, and A.D.N. says that the competent East German authorities are giving warnings that a refusal to renew would be regarded as a breach of the 1972 inter-Ger-man good-neighbour treaty. “It is quite clear that such a stand by the West German Government would not remain without consequences,” A.D.N. says. Last month, the agency warned Bonn a similar way that the establishment of a federal environmental protection office in West Berlin would not pass without consequences.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33611, 13 August 1974, Page 13
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