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The impact of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was serious but not permanent. It represented an interruption, not an end to detente. Reporting to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in June 1968, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, concluded that proposals made at Bucharest and Karlovy Vary were still appropriate to the circumstances in Europe and the state of East-West relations. Fourteen months later and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Gromyko addressed the UN General Assembly and, though the reference was brief and muted, the concept of a European security conference was, once again, quietly advocated.1
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Shulman, M. D., ‘A European Security Conference’, Europa-Archiv, 19/1969, reprinted in Survival, Vol. XI, No. 12, December 1969, pp. 377–8.
Selected Documents, op. cit., pp. 60–61. On Moscow’s détente aims see also, S. M. Terry, ‘The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Implications for US Policy’, in D. Caldwell (ed.), Soviet International Behaviour and US Policy Options (Lexington, Mass., 1985) pp. 18–19
and R. L. Hutchings, Soviet-East European Relations: Consolidation and Conflict, 1968–80 (Wisconsin, 1983) pp. 1–3.
Klaiber, W., H. Laszlo, H. Harned, J. Sattler, S. Wasowski, Era of Negotiations (London, 1973) p. 21.
Flanagan, S. J., ‘The CSCE and the Development of Détente’, in D. Leebaert (ed.), European Security: Prospects for the 1980s (Lexington, Mass., 1979) pp. 193–4.
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Freeman, J. (1991). The Road to Helsinki, 1969–73. In: Security and the CSCE Process. RUSI Defence Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10741-4_5
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