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...first to propose that it become the core of a new all-European security organization replacing NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow found the idea appealing because CSCE is the only organization that links Eastern and Western Europe -- and the U.S.S.R. belongs to it. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been pushing a strengthened CSCE for a similar purpose: to keep the Soviets from feeling isolated and resentful...
...there is one area of real, deeply felt consensus among German political parties and voters, it is on a foreign policy that is resolutely moderate and unadventurous. "With our greater weight we will not seek more power," insists Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, "but we will act in awareness of the added responsibility it imposes on us." No sooner had he signed the friendship treaty with Moscow, for example, than he was balancing it with a call for "a transatlantic declaration between the European Community and the North American democracies...
...recent steps highlight the course Genscher is charting. First, to reassure the Soviets and the world that it truly disdains the use of force, Bonn agreed to reduce the combined German armed forces from 590,000 to 370,000 over the next four years. Second, at the U.N. last week, Genscher set out his hopes for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He predicted that the CSCE would soon create new institutions, including "regular meetings of heads of state and government, a center for conflict prevention and a secretariat." Together, he said, they would provide...
...started a new age." The two men were describing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow last week by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the two Germanys. As Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looked on, West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher and East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere affixed their signatures, followed by the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers. Then the seven men marked the occasion by shaking hands and drinking a champagne toast...
...Kohl-Genscher marriage of convenience may end after the December elections for the new all-German parliament. The East German elections in March showed little support for Genscher's party, which may have trouble in December winning the necessary percentage of votes to stay in the Bundestag. Ironically, by laying the foundation for unification, Genscher has inadvertently made his political survival a good deal dicier...