UN General Assembly
1972

210. The conclusions the Finnish Government has drawn from the fundamental changes which we are presently witnessing in the European situation further encouraged us last fall to make an identical proposal to both German Governments for a comprehensive arrangement of relations between Finland and the two German States. Later, in July of this year, the Finnish Government concluded that the time had come to enter into negotiations with both those States. These measures are based on the policy Finland has consistently pursued with regard to the two Germanys. That policy is dictated by our desire as a neutral country to stay outside the dispute between the great Powers on the German question or the bilateral differences between the two Germanys deriving there from and consistently to offer equal treatment and to seek to maintain equal relations with both.