UN General Assembly
1955

75. To ignore that fact and not to recognize the existence of one of these two States and to exclude its Government from negotiations on the solution of the German problem would be to ignore the political realities of the present time. The Treaty of 20 September 1955 on relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic, based as it is on the principle of equality, mutual respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs, gives the German Democratic Republic an opportunity freely to solve questions relating to its domestic and foreign policy and its relations with the Federal Republic of Germany and all other States. The agreement will thus contribute to a solution of the German question and the establishment of a unified, peace-loving, democratic German State. We are convinced that it is precisely within the framework of a European security system that the problem of German reunification can be solved in the interests of the German and of all other European peoples.