Moscow Agrees to Pull Out Troops, Czechoslovaks Say
The Soviet Union has agreed in principle to withdraw all 75,000 of its troops in Czechoslovakia, a Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
Spokesman Lubos Dobrovsky, at a news conference after two days of Soviet-Czechoslovak talks, said a timetable for the pullout must still be worked out, but both sides are in “complete agreement” that all Soviet troops eventually will leave the country.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Soviet delegation.
The negotiations on the troop withdrawal adjourned late Tuesday and are scheduled to resume early next month in Moscow.
Soviet army troops have been deployed in Czechoslovakia since the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion that crushed the Prague Spring reform movement.
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