Am 16. März 1971 legt Berndt von Staden, Ministerialdirektor im Auswärtigen Amt der BRD, einen Sprechzettel und Richtlinien zur Behandlung im Kabinett für die Gespräche mit der Tschechoslowakischen Republik vor.

On 11 December 1973, in Prague, the Federal Republic of Germany and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty in which the two States recognise each other diplomatically and declare the 1938 Munich Agreements to be null and void by acknowledging the inviolability of their common borders and abandoning all territorial claims.

The signing of the Prague Treaty by the Federal Republic of Germany and Czechoslovakia on 11 December 1973 is accompanied by an exchange of letters between the two countries' Foreign Ministers.