Kohl’s pledge
NZPA-Reuter Bonn The West German Chancellor, Dr Helmut Kohl, in his first policy statement to Parliament, pledged yesterday that his Government would lead West Germany out of what he called the worst economic crisis in its 33-year history. Dr Kohl said that his Centre-Right coalition had unseated Helmut Schmidt’s Government in a Parliamentary vote two weeks ago to prevent “the rapid declinefrom becoming a crash." Dr Kohl promised improved ties with the Western alliance and the United
States and announced that he would visit Washington in the next few weeks. West . Germany would also try to improve relations with the Soviet Union and East Germany, he said. Renewing a promise to give voters a chance to deliver a verdict on his Government in a General Election in March, Dr Kohl offered all-party talks on overcoming Constitutional problems which would make it difficult to call a poll before 1984. His Government would pursue Centrist policies and he pledged less State, intervention. - . •
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Press, 15 October 1982, Page 8
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