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6.7.1972 (Thursday)

Proposition de resolution présentée par M. Berkhouwer, au nom du groupe des Libéraux et apparentés, relative à la préparation de la Conférence européenne pour la sécurité et la coopération

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Le Parlement européen se félicite de la récente détente Est–Ouest et appelle à la tenue de pourparlers multilatéraux en vue de préparer la CSCE. Il appelle la Communauté à adopter une position commune visant à assouplir les barrières économiques et culturelles, à garantir la libre circulation et à promouvoir l'accord de Moscou sur la limitation des missiles, en tant que première étape vers la réduction des armements.

Également: Lettre du président du Parlement Européen, Walter Behrendt, au président du Conseil des Communautés européennes, Wilhelm Schmelzer, du 17.11.1972 (annexe).

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Motion for a resolution presented by the Dutch Member of the European Parliament Berkhouwer1

Draft Resolution Submitted on Behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Concerning the Preparation of the European Conference on Security and Cooperation

[Brussels,] 6 July 1972

The European Parliament,

Noting the new conditions of détente created in Europe by the recent German-Soviet Moscow Treaty,2 the German-Polish Warsaw Treaty,3 and the Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin:4

1. wishes that multilateral consultations take place as early as this autumn in Helsinki, with a view to preparing the European Conference on Security and Cooperation;

2. invites, consequently, the Member States of the Community to adopt a common position that can be presented in Helsinki by a single spokesperson, particularly in the commercial, scientific, and technical fields, without undermining Atlantic solidarity;

3. considers that the time has come to ease economic and cultural barriers and to achieve genuine free movement of persons and ideas throughout the European continent;

4. regards the Moscow Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement5 as a first step towards the balanced and controlled limitation – followed by reduction – of nuclear and conventional weapons.6

1: Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), CM2/1975 No. 728 (PE 30.651). Translated from French. This document No. 101/72, consists of a Draft Resolution submitted by The Dutch member of the European Parliament Cornelis Berkhouwer, dodis.ch/P56800, on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, dodis.ch/R44056. Between 1953 and 1958, the Group grew significantly thanks to the accession of a large number of independent, non-attached members. In 1959, it became the second largest political group in the European Parliament, surpassing the Socialist Group, a position it maintained until 1963. Following the departure of the Gaullists, it again became the Parliament’s third largest group. The document concerns the preparation of the CSCE and has been extracted from a file of the Council of Ministers of the European Communities concerning the Final Act of the CSCE. The file notably brings together a series of documents from the European Parliament that were transmitted to the Council in the framework of interinstitutional cooperation. This particular document includes a resolution of the European Parliament and a covering letter signed by the President of the European Parliament, Walter Behrendt, dodis.ch/P81421 and addressed to the Dutch President of the Council of the European Communities Wilhelm Schmelzer, dodis.ch/P43055.↩

2: The Moscow Treaty was signed on 12 August 1970 between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Soviet Union. It represented the first concrete achievement of the new policy of rapprochement with the East – Ostpolitik – pursued by the Chancellor of the FRG Willy Brandt, dodis.ch/P15409, since taking office. The treaty entered into force on 3 June 1972.↩

3: The Warsaw Treaty (Warschauer Vertrag) was an agreement between West Germany and the People’s Republic of Poland, signed on 7 December 1970 and ratified by the German Bundestag on 17 May 1972. Under the terms of the treaty, both parties committed themselves to nonviolence and accepted the existing border, the Oder-Neisse Line.↩

4: The Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, signed on 3 September 1971 by France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, helped to ease Cold War tensions over the divided city. It guaranteed transit between West Berlin and the FRG, improved communication links, and acknowledged the ties between West Berlin and the FRG, while prohibiting any unilateral changes to the city’s status.↩

5: The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, formally known as the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, was a key arms control agreement signed on 26 May 1972 in Moscow (USSR) by United States President Richard Nixon, dodis.ch/P13584, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, dodis.ch/P15543. The treaty entered into force on 3 October 1972. It bound the United States and the Soviet Union to strict limits on the deployment of antiballistic missile systems in order to maintain strategic stability.↩

6: At its sitting of 15 November 1972, the European Parliament adopted, on the basis of an interim report by the member of the European Parliament Lucien Radoux, dodis.ch/P38987, on behalf of the Political Committee on the CSCE, cf. HAEU, PE0-1461, a resolution on the preparation of the European Conference on Security and Cooperation and on the draft resolution submitted by Mr Berkhouwer on behalf of the Liberal and Allies Group, cf. the facsimilie dodis.ch/77039. For the minutes of the sitting containing the Parliament’s resolution, as well as the interim report of its competent committee in the four official languages of the Communities, cf. HAEU, PE0-3125. Session du 13 au 17 novembre 1972. For all documents of the European Community in this volume, cf. the compilation dodis.ch/C2912.↩

Archive	Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence
Archival classification	HAEU CM2/1975-00728/001
Archival classification	HAEU Conseil des Communautés européennes
Dossier title	Documents concernant l'acte final de la Conférence sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (CSCE), signé à Helsinki, 01.08.1975. Documents from 06 July 1972 to 17 April 1975 (6.7.1972–17.4.1975)
File reference archive	1.78.327.7(4)

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