Berlin: Bonn Group Meetings

Summary

A file containing records of meetings of the Bonn Group of American, British, French, and West German officials to discuss Berlin. Subjects covered in these meetings included flights between Berlin and Turkey; the operation of Allied military trains to and from West Berlin; incidents at Checkpoint Charlie; the supply of Soviet gas to West Berlin; and an East German law on waterways. Other subjects discussed in these meetings included European Economic Community civil aviation legislation; Soviet and East German protests at a visit to Berlin by the British prime minster, Margaret Thatcher; Deutsche Reichsbahn's unpaid electricity bills in West Berlin; the planned celebrations in East Berlin and East Germany for the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther; the hijacking of a Polish airliner; and the future of the S-Bahn suburban railway.

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turkey united kingdom france coal taxation natural gas tunisia united states of america united nations civil aviation east-west relations flags waterways international relations law railways religion official visits soviet union european integration fuel electricity supply berlin east germany international organisations margaret thatcher west germany consulates american foreign policy european economic community (eec) soviet foreign policy french foreign policy british foreign policy Soviet-West German relations East German-West German relations Anglo-West German relations airfields West Berlin Industry and Agriculture Border Security and Migration East German foreign policy commercial airlines American-West German relations French-West German relations Economic Commission for Europe (E.C.E.) East Berlin Petr Abrasimov Berlin border crossings LIVE OAK