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- WORLD, Page 64World NotesTREATIESA Farewell To Arms
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- Secretary of State James Baker called it "a rendezvous with
- history." Said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze: "We
- have closed the book on World War II and started a new age."
- The two men were describing the Treaty on the Final Settlement
- with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow last week by the
- U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the two Germanys.
- As Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looked on, West German
- Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and East German Prime
- Minister Lothar de Maiziere affixed their signatures, followed
- by the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers. Then the
- seven men marked the occasion by shaking hands and drinking a
- champagne toast.
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- The accord ends the postwar rights of the World War II
- Allies in Germany and effectively marks the end of the cold war
- that began as soon as the defeat of Germany was completed. It
- puts the Big Four stamp of approval on the Oct. 3 unification
- of East and West Germany and states that the country will never
- try to claim land forfeited to Poland after World War II. The
- new Germany also agrees to renounce the manufacture, possession
- and control of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
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