on rost-favoured-nat,ion clauses should be inEerpreted in Ehe light of the former- CZECHOSLOVAKIA [Originalr Englishl [22 ]larch 19851 The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic remains coltrnitted to its comments on the draft articles of the International Law Commission on rnost-favoured-nation clauses as contained in document A/35/2O3 and Eo the position explained by the Czechoslovak delegate at the thirty-eighth session of the General Assenb1y. GERMAN DETTTOCRATIC REPT'BLIC . [Original: English] [3 iluly 198s] 1. The Gernan Democratic Republic aEtaches great political and legal importance to the codification of principles to govern the application of roost-favoured-nation treatment. 2. In so doing iE is guided by the view Ehat agreement concerqing most-favoured-nation treatnent in intergovernmental relations provides Ehe foundation for adherence to the respective principles and, consequently, favourable conditions for all-round and fruitful international co-operation. This was also underlined by the member countries of the Council for l,tutual Economic Assistance, which, at. t,heir top-level economic consultations in June 1984, singled out most-favoured-nation treatment as one of the principles of intergovernnental co-operation whose strict observance is reguired for the recovery of international economic relations. 3. The creation of a universal legal instrument on Ehe application of rpst-favoured-nation clauses would be a rnajor contribution to pronotinq the mutually advant,ageous and equal co-operation of all States and thus to the further strengthening of the maEerial foundations of peace and d6tenle. If codification work on the draft art.icles on mosC-favoured-nat,ion treaEment could be successfully completed and if the fanily of nations adopted these draft arEicles in Ehe forn of /...A/40/444 English Page 5 a binding legal instrument, this would mean the translation into bintting legal terms of a major recommendation concerning international economic relations contained both in the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States and the FinalAct of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki).