Situation in Czechoslovakia
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 28 September 1978 (11th Sitting) (see Doc. 4210, report of the Committee on European Non-member Countries. Text adopted by the Assembly on 28 September 1978 (11th Sitting).
- Thesaurus
The Assembly,
1. Recalling its Resolutions 376 (1968), 399 (1969), 420 (1969), 496 (1971) and 520 (1972), on the situation in Czechoslovakia, and its Resolutions 654 (1977) and 672 (1978), on implementation of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ;
2. Considering that Czechoslovakia's relations with her Western neighbours have significantly improved in recent years, particularly those with the Federal Republic of Germany as a result of the bilateral treaty of 1973 which paved the way for the visit of President Husak to Bonn in April 1978 ;
3. Regretting that the decade following the invasion by five Warsaw Pact Allies has seen no meaningful normalisation of the internal situation, and that more than 70 000 Soviet troops remain on Czechoslovak soil, in violation of bilateral agreements,
4. Expresses its full solidarity with the ideas of the Charter 77 movement, whose members continue to reaffirm, at great personal risk, the Czechoslovak people's traditional attachment to certain basic human rights and fundamental freedoms also upheld by the Council of Europe ;
5. Joins the protests expressed in many quarters in Europe at the continued victimisation by Czechoslovak authorities of all those associated with the Prague Spring and, more recently, with Charter 77 which refers in particular to the breach of commitments entered into as a result of ratification of the United Nations Human Rights Covenants and signature of the Helsinki Final Act.
