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1991

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The Unification Of Germany And International Law, Frans Von Der Dunk, Peter H. Kooijmans Mar 1991

The Unification Of Germany And International Law, Frans Von Der Dunk, Peter H. Kooijmans

Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program: Faculty Publications

The process of German unification, at least as far as its international legal aspects are concerned, is almost complete now. After the first Staatsvertrag, creating as of July 1, 1990, a monetary union between the Federal Republic of Germany ("FRG") and the German Democratic Republic ("GDR"), the second Staatsvertrag uniting the two States as of October 3 legally sealed the inter-German aspects of the unification.

At the same time, the September 12 Treaty between the four former occupation powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France—and the two former occupied German States took care of the remaining …