Jessup-Malik Agreement
The Jessup-Malik Agreement was an agreement of the allied occupying powers in Germany - USA, USSR, Great Britain and France - from May 4, 1949 to end the blockade of West Berlin .
Content of the agreement
The Jessup-Malik Agreement was signed by Philip Jessup for the United States and Jakow Alexandrovich Malik for the USSR . It was based on non-public negotiations between the two diplomats on behalf of their states since mid-February 1949 and contained the obligation to lift all mutual restrictions of the Allies on traffic, trade and transport between the eastern zone on the one hand and the western zones including Berlin on the other. In its first two paragraphs, it contained the termination of the economic sanctions imposed by the USSR on the western sectors of Berlin from June 24, 1948, as well as those measures within the counter-blockade against the Soviet zone opened by the western powers on the same day , including the suspension of all deliveries mainly of important raw materials and products such as hard coal and steel from the western zones to the eastern zone and the restrictions on the internal German movement of goods.
In a third paragraph there was an agreement to discuss "questions concerning Germany" on May 23, 1949 at a conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris. There were no further stipulations, for example about the traffic routes between the zones.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Hardach : The Marshall Plan. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. Munich, 1994. Page 187. ISBN 3-42304-636-8 .
- ↑ Axel Schildt and Arnold Sywottek : Modernization in Reconstruction: The West German Society of the 1950s. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn , 1993. Page 89. ISBN 3-80124-042-8 .
- ^ Communique on the lifting of the Berlin blockade of May 4, 1949 . Reprinted in the magazine: Europa-Archiv , 1949 edition (publisher: Wilhelm Cornides ). Frankfurt am Main, 1949. Page 2146.