Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

Drafted	13 February 1990
Signed	12 September 1990
Location	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Effective	15 March 1991
Signatories	Hans-Dietrich Genscher Lothar de Maizière Roland Dumas Eduard Shevardnadze Douglas Hurd James Baker
Parties	Federal Republic of Germany German Democratic Republic France  Soviet Union  United Kingdom  United States
Depositary	Government of the Federal Republic of Germany
Languages	English French German Russian
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The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (German: Vertrag über die abschließende Regelung in Bezug auf Deutschland^[a]), or the Two Plus Four Agreement (German: Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag^[b]), is an international agreement that allowed the reunification of Germany in October 1990. It was negotiated in 1990 between the 'two', the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in addition to the Four Powers which had occupied Germany at the end of World War II in Europe: France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The treaty supplanted the 1945 Potsdam Agreement: in it, the Four Powers renounced all rights they had held with regard to Germany, allowing for its reunification as a fully sovereign state the following year.^[1][2][3] Additionally, the two German states agreed to reconfirm the existing border with Poland, accepting that German territory post-reunification would consist only of what was presently administered by West and East Germany—renouncing explicitly any possible claims to the former eastern territories of Germany including East Prussia, most of Silesia, as well as the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania.

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