Western (R): Germany (RG). GDR Foreign Policy

A file of correspondence, reports, and press material concerning East German international relations. The documents cover a tour of South-East Asia by an East German political delegation headed by Bruno Leuschner, the East German deputy prime minister; the East German delegation's attempts to use the visit to "improve the regime's diplomatic status"; the delegation's signature of cultural agreements with Cambodia, India, and Sri Lanka; and the British belief that the delegation was unsuccessful in its efforts to "secure firm public endorsement for its line on the German question". The documents also cover the East German government's signature of a "treaty of friendship" with the Soviet Union; and the possibility of the other Soviet satellite states signing a similar treaty with East Germany. Other documents in the file comment on the East German government's reaction to the resignation of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader; and the state of relations between East Germany and China.