W. Germans Reassure Soviets at Informal Reunification Talks
West German leaders attempted Monday to overcome Kremlin opposition to a united Germany’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as preparations got under way for historic unification talks.
Experts from the two Germanys and the four victorious World War II powers--Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union--held closed-door procedural talks in East Berlin to prepare for the formal “two-plus-four” negotiations at the foreign ministers’ level in Bonn.
After six hours of talks, they issued a statement saying that Poland’s borders would be the first item discussed when the foreign ministers hold their first formal talks on May 5 in Bonn.
Also Monday, the White House announced that President Bush will confer with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on May 17 in Washington, in preparation for the U.S.-Soviet summit to be held later in the month.
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