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( 	OF THE BUNDESfAG GROUPS; THIS WAS FOLLOWED ;. BY SITUATION 
. 	REPORTS. FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FONOFF AND THE DEFENSE MINISTRY. THEREAFTER, THE CABINET DISCUSSED THE SITUATION; FROM THIS DISCUSSION THE FOLLOWING POINTS EMERGED: 
A. 	THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINDS IT DEPLORABLE THAT WE 
·WE MUST aE WITNESSES OF OPPRESSION OF A NEIGHBORING PEOPLE WITH WHOM OUR PEOPLE DESIRE TO LIVE IN GOOD AND FRIENDLY RELATIONS. 
B. IT REGARDS THE ACT ION OF THE MEMBER srATES OF THE WARSAW PACT WHICH ARE INVOLVED IN THIS AS AN ACI IN CONTRAVENTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND AN UNACCEPTABLE INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. . 
c. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REJECTS WITH DETERMINATION ALL ALL ATTEMPTS, SUCH AS ·THOSE WHICH HAVE . SEEN MADE IN THE PASI HOLES AND INDEED ·ALREADY IN THE PASf SEVERAL DAYS, TO INVOLVE 
. rr 	SOMEHOW AMONG THE EXTERNAL AUf HORS OF THIS ACT ION, AND IT REFERS EXPLICITLY TO THE ATTITUDE OF MARKED RESERVE WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MAINTAINED DUR ING THE PAST MONTHS TOWARD DEVELOPMENTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND WHICH ATTITUDE --AS WE ALL WELL KNOW--STANDS .IN TH£. SHARPEST CONTRASf TO THE CXlNSfANT PRESSURES AND CALLS FOR INTERVENTION FROM THE OTHER PART OF GERMANY 
D. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ASSUMES THAT THE DECLARAr'ION ­WHICH THE.. SOVIET GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY COMMUNICATED PUBLICLY AS WELL AS TO SEVERAL NATO· COUNTRIES, TO THE· EFFECT THAT THIS 
· ACT ION WOULD BE LIMITED TO THE PRESENT AREA AND IS NOT 
( 	DIRECTED AGAINSf OTHER STATES, THAT THIS DECLARATION APPLIES ALSO CREFLECTS THE ACTUALITY>. E • . FINALLY MAY -I SAY IN THE NAME OF THE FEDERAL • GOVERNMENT THAT THE GERMANS CONTINUE TO .DESmE A EUROPEAN PEACE ORDER, IN WHICH THERE .WOULD BE NO RESORT" TO FORCE CR TO THREATS OF FORCE. IT IS NOT .A MATTER OF THE 
. ESTABLISHMENT 	OR RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF FORMER POWER RELATIONS, BUT RATHER Utl>ERSIANDING BETWEEN PEOPLES, EVEN IF THEY MUST LIVE UNDER VAIOUS SOCIAL SYSTEMS• . 
F. 	SO MUCH FOR A COMMUNIQUE ON THE CCABINET> DISCUSSIONS 
· 	ON CZECHOSLOVAKIAN MATTERS. 
IN CONCLUSION I MAY NOTE THAT THE FEDERAL ·GOVERNMENT 
HAS NOT YET REACHED A DECISION ON TALKS BETWEEN FEDERAL 
ECONOMICS MINISTER SCHILLER AND EASI GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE 
MINISTER SOELLE. 
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