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Nieznany kontekst planu Rapackiego
An unknown context of Rapacki Plan

Author(s): Piotr Długołęcki
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: international security; atom-free zone; Rapacki

Summary/Abstract: The initiative to establish an atom-free zone on the territory of Poland, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic was presented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam Rapacki on 2 October 1957. On the same day, also in New York, the Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Václav David, announced his country’s readiness to join the project. But Polish-Soviet consultations on a non-nuclear zone had been held since as early as 1956, and the Polish MoFA began working on the concept back in late 1955.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 116-127
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish