On 13 June 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, sign a Joint Declaration in Bonn concerning the right of peoples and States to self-determination.

On 13 June 1989, meeting in Bonn, Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, sign a joint declaration affirming the right of peoples and States to self-determination.

On 8 November 1989, Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), delivers an address to the Bundestag on the state of the nation in a divided Germany.

On 28 November 1989, Chancellor Helmut Kohl presents to the Bundestag his Ten-Point Plan designed to result in the reunification of Germany.

On 28 November 1989, Wolfgang Meyer, spokesman for the East German Government, expresses reservations about the Ten-Point Plan devised by Chancellot Helmut Kohl to facilitate the reunification of Germany.

In his memoirs, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former West German Foreign Minister, describes the reactions to the presentation, on 28 November 1989, of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s 10-point plan for German reunification.

On 30 November 1989, the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit considers whether the application of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's 10-point plan might ultimately lead to the reunification of Germany.

On 28 November 1989, Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from 1982 to 1998, presents a ten-point plan for the unification of the two German States.

Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in 1974 and then again from 1982 to 1992, the Liberal politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher is among the architects of German reunification.

‘National anthem.’ In 1989, German cartoonist Walter Hanel takes an ironic look at the fears of the leaders of the Four Powers — the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union — regarding Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s 10-point programme for the reunification of Germany. From left to right: US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French President François Mitterrand and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. Operating the handle of the barrel organ is German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, accompanied by his Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.