UNITED NATIONS: SECRETARY GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM HAILS ENTRY OF TWO GERMANIES TO UNITED NATIONS AS BREAKTHROUGH IN EAST-WEST RELATIONS.

Record ID: 223063

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: SECRETARY GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM HAILS ENTRY OF TWO GERMANIES TO UNITED NATIONS AS BREAKTHROUGH IN EAST-WEST RELATIONS.
  • Date: 18th September 1973
  • Summary: 1. GV U.N building with flags flying (MUTE) (2 shots) 0.08 2. GV & SV INT Newsman (4 shots) 0.21 3. SV Waldhaim speaks 0.50 "For many years, the German problem was a main point in the crisis in East West relations. It is a welcome sign of the improvement in these relations that the two German states can now take their place in the United Nations. I hope that a constructive solution may also soon be found for other divided countries, os that they also may take their place at the United Nations." Initials BB/1810 TH/PN/BB/1816 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 1973 13:00
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVABBAHFMIX47QY9GV4TUYT1X00M
  • Story Text: United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldhaim on Monday (September 17) hailed the impending entry of East and West Germany into the United Nations ??? a most encouraging break-through in East-West relations.

    Speaking at a news conference on the eve of the opening of the 2???th General Assembly, the Secretary-General said he hoped to see the other divided nations of the world also settling their differences so they could take their place in the United Nations:
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