Conference on the Czechoslovak-Polish Relations

Abstract

On March 2, a scientific conference on Czechoslovak-Polish relations in the past and present was held in Prague at the Institute for International Politics and Economics.

The impetus for holding the conference was given, among other things, by the 20th anniversary of the signing of the contract on friendship and cooperation between the two countries. In addition to the ÚMPE, the organizers of the conference were the Constitution of the History of the European Socialist Countries CSAV, the Silesian Constitution of the SAV in Opava and Historically the State of the SAV.

The conference was attended by Czechoslovak historians, employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a representative of the Polish embassy, ​​and representatives of the Czechoslovak and Polish press. University professor dr. Kazimierz Popiotek, director of the Slaskie Instytutu Naukowego in Katowice, university professor dr. Wiodzimierz Markiewicz, Feditel Instytut, Zachodniego in Poznań, professor dr. Henryk Batowski from the University of Krakow, docent dr. Janusz Zarnowski, head of the department of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Historical Institute of the PAN in Warsaw, dr. e Ryszard Markiewicz, editor-in-chief of Spraw Miedzynarodowych and dr. Wiodzimierz Kowalski, scientific worker of Polskiego Instytutu Spraw Migdzynarodowych in Warsaw.

The conference was devoted to the issue of the complex and multifaceted relations between Poland and the CSSR and at the same time had the opportunity to appreciate the importance of the just concluded new treaty on friendship and cooperation between the PLR ​​and CSSR.