Speech #930291627

In particular It should be examined whether the CSCE agreements on trade and industrial cooperation affect the European Communitys full foreign trade competence. effective January 1. 1975. and whether they would impede the required common coordination of the consultative agreements. Furthermore. the Federal Government should explain to the public its basic attitude on the problem of whether it will approve cooperation within the frame of "basket II" without return favors. or whether it will base its approval of Western concessions on full acceptance of the achieved standard of worldwide cooperation on the part of the Warsaw Pact states or/and on Eastern concessions in the area of the other two "baskets". The Federal Government is requested to state whether it Is willing to introduce the issue of free emigration of Germans from the Soviet Union and East Europe within the framework of a joint initiative of the entire West. in imitation of the Jackson Amendment to the US trade bill in the US Congress. 15. (a) How does the Federal Government assess Soviet demands for the establishment of a permanent allEuropean consultation and control body? (b) Does the federal government consider the transferral of CSCE followup missions to already existing international organizations (such as the ECE) and/or special commissions as feasible? Reasons: One of the main objectives of the Soviet Union at the CSCE was and is the creation of a permanent allEuropean consultation and control commission. which is to assume administrative tasks as an executive body between further meetings of the full Conference. This body would give the Soviet Union a say ("droit de regard") in West European developments. while It and its Allies would reject any counterinfluence by the West In its own sphere of influence by invoking its exaggerated conception of sovereignty of the "Socialist international law".