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| 02.1990 | YU
MK |
The Movement for All Macedonian Action (MAAK) is formed by Ante Popovski, head of the Macedonian Writers' Union, calling for the "spiritual unification of the people." |
| YU
SLO |
The Slovene League of Communists renames
as the Party of Democratic Renewal, retaining Ribièiæ as leader. It breaks
all links with the LCY.
Slovenia withholds contributions from the federal budget to retaliate to the Serbian economic blockade. |
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| 01.02.1990 | DDR | Modrow presents a declaration on "the
path to German Unity." The new travel law comes into force.
East German LDPD renames itself LDP. |
| 02.02.1990 | ||
| 03.02.1990 | ||
| 04.02.1990 | DDR | The SED-PDS finally drops the SED.
The FDP holds a constituent party congress in the DDR. |
| YU
SLO |
The Slovenian Communist Party breaks away from the Yugoslav League of Communists. | |
| 05.02.1990 | DDR | Modrow enlarges his government (currently
PDS, DBD, CDU, LDP, NDPD) by a further 8 ministers without portfolio, to
form a "government of national responsibility." There are now 13 parties
and groupings in the coalition, many ministers without portfolio.
CDU, DSU and DA form the electoral pact "Allianz für Deutschland". |
| YU | Milo±eviæ calls for a "mobilisation for Kosovo," a mass settlement programme since "some 400 000 Serbs and Montenegrins have left Montenegro" since 1967. | |
| 06.02.1990 | DDR | Bundesbank chairman Pöhl meets his DDR counterpart Kaminsky. |
| 07.02.1990 | DDR | Kohl announces that his cabinet is prepared
to offer the DDR economic and monetary union in negotiations. The proposal
takes the eastern government by surprise. A cabinet committee "German Unity"
is created, chaired by Kohl.
"Bündnis '90" is formed in the DDR by the fusion of Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt and Initiative für Frieden und Menschenrechte. |
| 08.02.1990 | DDR | After a Council of Ministers meeting in
East Berlin, government spokesman Wolfgang Meyer states that Kohl's proposed
rapid currency union is being viewed as a part of the Bundestag election
campaign. He asks what has come of the Dresden agreement between Kohl and
Modrow which was to ensure the immediate stabilisation of the supply infrastructure.
He refuses to take stock of the situation, since this would "not be very
positive."
The CSU suggests to the Nobel Committee that this year's peace prize should be given to the population of Leipzig for their significant contribution to "the miracle of peaceful revolution without the spilling of blood." Soviet Politburo member Yakovlev says the USSR has no reservations on German unification. "A new threat from a well-known direction" must be avoided. "We are for a European Germany, not for a German Europe." Shevardnadze says Genscher's proposal on NATO membership will be discussed at the weekend, whereby no troops would be stationed on the territory of DDR. "Genscher has many common sense, astute ideas. We will discuss them with him." Baker states America's approval of the Genscher plan in principle. |
| HU | Hungary honours Cardinal Mindszenty who died in 1975, and ends the state making up the Church's mind for it. He was sentenced to death, then life imprisonment in a 1949 show trial. | |
| YU
SLO |
Slovenia's claimed right to split away from Yugoslavia breaches the federal constitution, according to a statement issued today by the Constitutional Court in Belgrade. | |
| 09.02.1990 | ||
| 10.02.1990 | DDR | Kohl and Gorbachev meet privately in Moscow and talk for four hours. At a press conference: "Tonight I have a single message for all Germans. Secretary Gorbachev and I agree that the German people have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to live together in one state .. This is a great day for Germany and for me personally." |
| 11.02.1990 | BG | First independent trade unions since 1944 are created in Bulgaria. |
| DDR | The Liberal parties in the DDR (LDP, Ost-FDP, Deutsche Forumspartei) formally agree to form one common group, the Bund Freier Demokraten. | |
| 12.02.1990 | Nato and Warsaw Pact foreign ministers meet in Ottawa, Canada, for discussions on German unification. | |
| DDR | "Jetzt hilft nur die totale Kapitulation
der DDR" Lothar Späth, FRG politician.
Volkskammer passes the Joint-Venture-Gesetz. |
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| 13.02.1990 | DDR | Summit meeting between Kohl and Modrow
and his 17 ministers in Bonn: there are many very hard problems to solve
on the path to unity. The problems of EMU as first step towards unification
are transferred to experts to consider. The DMark will replace the DDR-Mark,
with the condition that a social market economy be introduced.
Modrow wants the Germanies to progress towards an economic community immediately after the Volkskammer elections on 18th March. Kohl turns away from his 10 stage plan to unity, no longer realisable due to the crisis in the DDR. It is now only a question of federation. The capital city question was not discussed. Pan-German elections for this year were ruled out. Kohl irritates Modrow with his insistence that the eastern border is a question which can only be addressed by a single German parliament. Margaret Thatcher proposes a "four plus two" conference, Genscher already having suggested "two plus four" talks. |
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| 16.02.1990 | YU | Milo±eviæ demands "illegal immigrants from Albania living within a mile of the Albanian frontier be repatriated, and be deprived of their Yugoslav citizenship." |
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| 18.02.1990 | DDR | Opinion polls in the DDR show support for the main parties as PDS 18%, SPD 48% and CDU 21%. |
| 19.02.1990 | DDR | DDR begins the demolition of the Wall in Central Berlin. |
| 20.02.1990 | DDR | Volkskammer debate on a draft electoral law, to reduce the chamber to 400 members, not 500, and for free and secret election. |
| YU,
KOS |
The JNA is ordered for the first time to take action against disturbances in Kosovo. | |
| 21.02.1990 | DDR | Volkskammer passes a law on parties and other political bodies and an assembly law. |
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| 25.02.1990 | DDR | Bush and Kohl agree that Germany should remain a full Nato member. The Soviet Union rejects this membership of the Alliance. |
| 26.02.1990 | CS | USSR begins troop withdrawals from Czechoslovakia. |
| DDR | Honecker is to be investigated over the misuse of ransom payments from Bonn for political prisoners. |
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