Diplomatic file: An Unknown Context of the Rapacki Plan
Diplomatic file: An Unknown Context of the Rapacki Plan

Summary/Abstract: An initiative to create a nuclear-free zone in the territory of Poland, the FRG and the GDR was unveiled by Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam Rapacki on 2 October 1957 at the 12th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.1 On the same date, also in New York, the minister of foreign affairs of Czechoslovakia, Václav David, declared the readiness of his country to accede to the zone.2 Yet Polish-Soviet consultations on a denuclearized zone had been underway already in 1956 and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) had launched activities on this concept in late 1955.

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