E/6 - F/6 REGISTRY P - A OTAN NATO SERVICE DE PRESSE PRESS SERVICE Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassiçjny, PARIS, Téléphone : KLEber SD-2C r f A e •-'Tr3 O r* PRESS RELEASE (66) 6 or immediate release 21st June, 1966 EAST-WEST CONTACTS At the Brussels meeting of the Forth Atlantic Council, Ministers discussed the development of East-West relations and were particularly interested in the marked increase in official visits, contacts and agreem ents between mem bers of NATO and Eastern European countries. Examples of such exchanges are listed in the attached document which was compiled recently by the International Staff and is not necessarily complete. - 3 - ' EAST-WEST CONTACTS BELGIUM NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEM ENTS AND CONTACTS ON CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL MATTERS ■ ■ - Visit of Mr . Brasseur, Minister of Trade, to Bulgaria and Roum ania in February 1965. - Visit of M r. Adam, Secretary of State, Ministry of Trade, to Moscow, on the occasion of the "journée belge" of the International Chemical Exhibition in September 1965. - . Visit of Mr. Hamouz, Minister of Trade of Czechoslovakia, to Brussels in March 1965. - Visit of M r. Alexiev, Bulgarian Vice-M inister of Trade, to Brussels in June 1965. - Visit of Mr. Baczoni, Hungarian Vice-Minister of Trade, to Brussels in December 1965. o o o - Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement with Bulgaria at Sofia, 25th February, 1965, on the indemnification of Belgian and Luxembourg interests in Bulgaria. - Agreement of cultural co-operation between Belgium and Hungary was signed at Brussels, 11th February, 1965. - The Belgian-Luxembourg Economic Union signed an agreement with Poland at Brussels, 17th February, 1965, on industrial, technical and economic co-operation. - The Belgian-Luxembourg Economic Union signed a long-term trade agreement with Bulgaria in Brusselsj 16th July, 1965. - Second Protocol- etc., concerning the long-term trade agreement between the Belgian-Luxembourg Economic Union and Hungary, signed 13th September, 1963. - First Protocol etc., signed at The Hague, 8th September, 1965, concerning the long -term trade agreement between the Benelux Economic Union and Poland, of 14-th November, 1963. - Agreement between Belgium and Poland on social security, signed at Brussels, 26th November, 1965. - 3 - - Agreement on co-operation in the field of the peaceful use of nuclear energy between the Belgian "Commissaire à 1'énergie atomique” .and the Plenipotentiary of the Polish Government, for the use of nuclear energy, signed at Brussels, 7th December, 1965. - Agreement on .co-operation in the field of the peaceful use of atomic energy between the "Commissariat à l'énergie atomique", of Belgium, the "Stichting Reactorcentrum Nederland" and' the Soviet Chairman for the use of nuclear energy, signed in Moscow, 6th March, 1965. Planned agreements - Cultural agreement between Belgium and Bulgaria. - Agreement on social security between Belgium and Poland. - Consular agreement between Belgium and Poland. CANADA PLANNE D EAST-WEST CONTACTS ON■THE POLITICAL LEVEL - Visit of a Czechozlovak Parliamentary Delegation to Canada from 13th to 24th June, 1966. - Visit of à Soviet -Parliamentary Delegation to Canada from 27th June to 10th July, 1966 . - Visit of Mr. Polyansky, First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, to Canada from 27th June to 17th July (first part of visit as leader of a Soviet Parliamentary Delegation). DENMARK RECENT EAST-WEST CONTACTS ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL - Official visit1 to Denmark of Czech Foreign Minister, Mr. David, 23rd to 26th February, 1966. - Visit to Poland of the Permanent Under Secretary of State of the Danish Foreign Ministry in his capacity of Chairman of the Danish Disarmament Committee, 28th February to 6th March, 1966. - Official visit to Rumania by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Per Haekkerup,. 11th to 17th April, 1966 . - - Danish-Polish round table conference, 8th to 11th June, 1966 in-Poznan, on..international problems and also on bilateral questions of a- political, economic, scientific and cultural character. Mr. Per Federspiel, M.P., former . Minister, headed the Danish Delegation: Dr. ii-dam Kruczowski, M.P., Director of the Polish Institute for International Affairs, led the Polish Delegation. PLANNED EAST-WEST CONTACTS ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL - Official visit to Hungary by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Per Haekkerup, 9th to 13th August, 1966, - Official visit to Denmark by the Rumanian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, 13th to 20th August, 1966, - Official visit to Poland by Prime Minister J.O. Krag, tentatively fixed for 3rd to 6th (and possibly the 7th) January, 1967. - Official visit to Denmark by Prime Minister A. Kosygin. The date has not yet been fixed. FRANCE - - RECENT AND „PLANNED EAST-WEST CONTACTS ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL - Visit to Paris of Polish President Mr. Cyrankiewicz, -■ 16th to 19th September, 1 9 6 5 . - Visit to Moscow of Foreign Minister, Mir. Couve de Murville 25th October to 2nd November, 1965. -- Visit to Roumania of Foreign Minister, Mr. Couve de Murville, 25th to 28th April, 1966. - Visit to Bulgaria of Foreign Minister, Mr. Couve de Murville, 28th to 30th April, 1966. - Visit of a Polish Parliamentary Delegation headed by Vice President of Parliament Kliszko to France, • 9th to 14th May, 1966. • - Visit of Minister of Education, Mr. Fouchet, to Prague, 12th May, 1966. a - Visit to Poland of Foreign Minister, Mr. .Couve de M urville 18th to 21st May, 1966. - Visit to the USSR of the President of the Republic, 20th June to 1st July, 1966. - Visit to Hungary and Czechoslovakia of Foreign Minister, Mr. Couve de Murville, end of July 1966. NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEMENTS AND CONTACTS ON CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND ■ ' TECHNICAL MATTERS"" ' ! ^ - Agreement with Hungary on culture and science, signed— 15th July, 1965. - Agreement on oo-operation in the field of construction with Poland, signed at Warsaw, 27th September, 1965. - Visit of Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Pisani, to Roumania, 30th.September, 1965. - Visit to Czechoslovakia of Minister of Information, Mr. Peyrefitte, 7th to 12th October, 1965. - Trade agreement with Poland signed at Warsaw, 25th October, 1965. - Visit of Soviet Space Delegation headed by Mr. Sedov to Paris, October 1965. - Trade agreement with Hungary signed 15th February, .1966. - Trade agreement with Bulgaria signed 23rd March, 1966. GERMANY NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEMENTS AND CONTACTS ON CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND TlÜHNICAL MATTERS- ~ ` • ‘ • a - German-Bulgarian trade talks in Sofia, October 1965. - Second meeting, German-Hungarian trade talks in Bonn, November 1965.. .. - German-Polish trade talks in Warsaw, December 1965. - •Second meeting Gernan-Pölish trade talks in Warsaw, M arch 1966. - Conclusion of a German-Polish Supplementary Protocol to the Trade Agreement, Warsaw, 10th May, 1966. - Visit of the Rumanian Foreign Trade Minister, Mr. Cioara, to the Federal Republic of Germany, 17th to 26th May, 1966. - Beginning of German-Runanian trade negotiations in Bonn, 20th June, 1966. - Beginning of German-Soviet trade negotiations in Moscow, 13th July, 1966. - Visit of the Federal Minister of Economics, Herr Schmttcker, to Rumania early in September 1966 . - German-Bulgarian trade negotiations in Bonn, October 1966 . GREECE . .. _ _ .... NEGOTIATIONS,.AGREEMENTS AND CONTaCTS ON CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL MATTERS ' ^ Contacts . - Visit of the .Mayor of xithens, Mr. Plytas to Warsaw, June 1965. - Visit of the Vice Mayor and the Counsellor of the Muncipality of the City of Leningrad, Mr. Golev and Mr. Kachtelian, to Piraeus, January 1966 . - 6 - - 7 - - Visit of the Mayor of Belgrade, Mr . Pessiv to Athens, January 1 966 . - Visit of the Mayor of Skopje, Mr. Popov, to Greece in appreciation of assistance given.during the earthquake at Skopje. - Visit of Mr, Galinos, Minister of Social Welfare, to Roumahia and Yugoslavia, March 1966, Cultural exchanges ..... ` - - Renewal of the programme of scientific and cultural co-operation with Yugoslavia, 22nd March, 1965. - . Preliminary contacts .and proposals for the eventual signing of a cultural exchange programme with the Soviet Union, July 1965. - Renewal of the programme of cultural exchanges with Hungary, October 1965. - Negotiations for the signing of the programme for cultural exchanges with Poland postponed due.to defamatory propaganda against Greece of the Polish press, radio and television, October 1965. - Renewal of the programme of scientific and cultural co-operation with Bulgaria, February 1966. Economic exchanges - Renewal of trade protocol and additional agreement for payments with Czechoslovakia, 24th M ay, 1965. - New trade protocol signed with Yugoslavia, 22nd October, 1965. - Renewal of trade protocol and additional agreement . ■ for payments with Poland, 7th December, 1965. - Signature of a new five-year trade agreement with Hungary, 28th January, 1966. - Renewal of protocol on trade exchanges with ` Bulgaria, March 1966 . - 7 - - 8 - ITALY RECENT EAST-WEST CONTACTS ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL Visit to Poland of the President of the Republic Mr. Saragat, 14-th to 16th October, 1965. Visit of Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Gromyko, to Italy from 21st to 25th April, 1966. NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEMENTS AND CONTACTS ON CULTURAL, ECONOM IC AND TECHNICAL MATTERS ' Agreement on economic, industrial and technical co-operation with Poland, signed in Warsaw on 14th July, 1965. Long-term trade, agreement with Czechoslovakia, signed in Rome on 15th July, 1965» Trade agreement with Roumania, signed in Bucharest on 6th September, 1965. Long-term trade agreement