Le 16 mars 1971, Berndt von Staden, directeur général au ministère des Affaires étrangères de la RFA, propose dans une note interne les lignes de conduite pour les négociations avec la Tchécoslovaquie sur la conclusion d'un traité entre les deux États.

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.