could have predicted with ,any ~conf-ldence that this Coun~cil would be able to adopt today’s draft resolution 4 without dhsent? And yet the fact ,that we have done so delllonstrates the worth of the long drawn out process Of Patient negotiation which has taken place, involving bQth ‘the two G erman States themselves and (other ‘o@ers immediately concerned. 36. This process of negotiation which included the “%otiation in 1970 of the treaties) between the Federal RWubIie of Germany and the Soviet Union and Poland, contrast with the atmosphere of confrontation which had beset central Europe si’nce the Second Would War. ’ have no need con this occasion to :describ,e s&sequent events in f&l, but in Novemb’ea: last year talks b’etween the Federal Republic ‘of Germany and the German ‘emoccratic Repubflic cuhnin~at,ed in a General Relations Treaty which provided for ithe [establishment of normal re1ations between the Itwo. As memb’ers of this Council will know, this Trea,ty is now in force as a result of an exchange of notes which totok place on Wednesday. nl e Quadripa.r$te Declaration, t’o which the representa- tive of France has already refellred and which has bezn circuhted to all Me#mb,er State: was antier of Ihe steps in the course of events dhich led Ito the “*kg of the Security CouncP today, and I should ‘lke at this poi.nt to associate my Government with :he remarks #of ‘my French colleague concerning tha.t De&ration. 37. Burt today’s meeting is not the lend of the story, Fcause it is symbc& of something else. The relaxa- !on of tension i,n the very heart ,of Europ is cIosely Inked with the wider search for de’tente. On 3 July he Euroipean Conference on Semity and C&operation pill open in HeIsinki. This would not have been pos- ible without the improvement in the relations between 
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