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Article: Soviet Union Informs Czechoslovakia Of Start of Partial Troop Withdrawal;Prague's Demand for Total Pullout by End of Year Is Rebuffed
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- February 10, 1990
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The Soviet Union announced today that its troops, which have
occupied Czechoslovakia since the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, will
start returning home this month, but rebuffed Prague's demands for a
total withdrawal by the end of this year.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Aboimov made the announcement
over Czechoslovak radio in Moscow. Evzen Vacek, his Czechoslovak
counterpart in negotiations on the troop withdrawal, hailed as a
"very important result" a Soviet commitment to pull out the
"fundamental" part of Soviet combat units "by the end of May" even
without agreement on a total withdrawal of the 73,500-man force.
President Vaclav Havel's government has demanded a total pullout ...