b The former Czechoslovakia signed the Convention on 6 March 1979.

b Succession the former Czechoslovakia ratified the Convention on 26 May 1977.

c Succession the former Czechoslovakia ratified the Convention on 5 March 1990.

Czechoslovakia and Iraq maintained bilateral treaties on air transport and consular relations.

b Succession the former Czechoslovakia acceded to the Protocol on 5 March 1990.

g The former Czechoslovakia signed the Convention on 29 August 1975 and deposited an instrument of ratification on 26 May 1977, with the Convention entering into force for the former Czechoslovakia on 1 August 1988.

h The former Czechoslovakia signed the Convention on 1 September 1981 and deposited an instrument of ratification on 5 March 1990, with the Convention entering into force for the former Czechoslovakia on 1 April 1991.

2.1 In 1969, the author emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States with his family.

True, it was a shameful agreement conceived to appease the aggressor at the expense of Czechoslovakia.

The Covenant was ratified by Czechoslovakia in December 1975 and the Optional Protocol in March 1991.

The Covenant was ratified by Czechoslovakia in December 1975 and the Optional Protocol in March 1991.

More recently, they have attracted considerable criticism, e.g. expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War.

Czechoslovakia broke up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and each of those States was admitted into the United Nations.

j The former Czechoslovakia signed the Convention on 3 October 1958 and deposited an instrument of ratification on 10 July 1959.

Upon signature, the former Czechoslovakia declared in accordance with article 26 the formula for converting the amounts of liability referred to in paragraph 2 of that article into the Czechoslovak currency and the amount of the limits of liability to be applied in the territory of Czechoslovakia as expressed in the Czechoslovak currency.

An aluminum factory in Czechoslovakia was filled with carcinogenic smoke and dust, and four out of five workers came down with cancer.

Between 1978 and 1991, scientific microsatellites weighing 15 50 kg were developed for the Magnetosphere Ionosphere (MAGION) research programme in the former Czechoslovakia.

f Czechoslovakia was a participant to the Convention and the Protocol by virtue of its accession to the Protocol on 5 March 1990.

Dictatorships in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mali, Madagascar, Poland, the Philippines, Serbia, Slovenia, I could go on, and now Tunisia and Egypt.

Problems of actual or potential statelessness arose in the Baltic States following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

The author of the communication is Bohumir Marik, a United States and Czech citizen, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, currently residing in the United States.

In September 1938, Hitler threatened to attack Czechoslovakia in order to bring the ethnic Germans living near the German border under his rule. The Munich Agreement gave this region, referred to by the Nazis as the Sudetenland, to Germany, leaving Czechoslovakia without defensible borders and paving the way for the Nazi invasion and partition of the country the following March.

Led delegations to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and the United States for the purpose of developing arrangements for cooperation and assessing and gathering information and evidence

Pursuant to the Benes decrees of 1945, the family's properties in Czechoslovakia were confiscated, including Aich Castle, where the stocks were hidden in a hall cupboard.

At the start of the 1990's, following communism's fall, the common experiences and the shared legacy of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland were behind the idea of creating the so called Visegrad Group, with the aim of coordinating the three countries' efforts to join the EU and NATO. The Visegrad initiative worked to some extent, though it was temporarily paralyzed by the disintegration of Czechoslovakia just over a decade ago.

For example, the victorious powers in World War I invoked the principle of self determination, but after the dismantlement of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though its inhabitants spoke German. After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the Sudeten Germans seceded from Czechoslovakia and joined Germany, which meant that the mountainous frontier fell under German control a terrible loss for Czech defenses.

One lesson of the 1989 revolution in Eastern Europe is the value of having truly democratic minded figures lead the escape from communism. Poland had Lech Walesa Czechoslovakia Václav Havel.

In 1991, a painting by the Dutch master Pieter van Laer was lent by a museum in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to a museum in Cologne, Germany, for inclusion in an exhibition.

That painting had been the property of the family of the Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein since the eighteenth century. It was confiscated in 1945 by Czechoslovakia under the Beneš Decrees.

The Czech Republic, upon ratification, withdrew the declaration, referred to in footnote c, that had been made by the former Czechoslovakia, and lodged the declaration referred to in the second paragraph of that footnote.

Many other adversaries of Iraq also maintained treaty relations with it in areas potentially incompatible with armed conflict, including, inter alia, the United States of America, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Egypt, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

2.3 After the regime change in Czechoslovakia in late 1989, the author, only son and heir of Eugen and Josefa Czernin, lodged a claim for restitution of their property under Act No. 87 1991 and Act No.

In 1989, after the fall of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia, the author, as sole heir, sought restitution of his father's property, and in 1995, sought to renew his parents' applications for restoration of Czech citizenship.

The Soviet Union possessed a great deal of soft power in the years after World War II. But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

The Kremlin is very good at feigning such idealism. Its control of Eastern Europe was always enforced on the basis of friendship treaties, and the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 were fraternal missions.

All the previous cases (for example the break up of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Czechoslovakia) were different and so the legal consequences were different and it is quite unlikely the same situation could occur again.

All the previous cases (for example, the break up of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Czechoslovakia) were different, and thus the legal consequences were different, and it is quite unlikely the same situation could occur again.

Had a free and fair referendum been offered to the Sudeten Germans, a majority might have backed union with Germany. But would that have given them the right to leave the remainder of Czechoslovakia defenseless against its large and hostile neighbor?

Kaiser Wilhelm II invaded neutral Belgium to start WWI. Hitler swallowed Austria and Czechoslovakia when it suited him but Austria's neutrality after 1955 was enough to satisfy the Cold War's two blocs, and now it is part of the EU.

2.1 Prior to World War II, the family of the authors owned extensive property in Czechoslovakia, including stocks of German companies including Daimler Benz (worth 154.000 Reichsmark), Dresdner Bank (worth 142.000 Reichsmark) and IG Farben Industrie AG (worth 410.000 Reichsmark).

The 1993 division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia the famed velvet divorce imposed no significant or lasting costs on either successor state. Both accepted the division, and, knowing that their future lay within the EU, focused their attention on accession.

The former communist world made those choices 20 years ago. But very different choices for better and for worse were made in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, in the Baltic states, across the former Soviet Union, in Central Asia, and in East Germany.

2.1 After the German occupation of the border area of Czechoslovakia in 1939, and the establishment of the protectorate , Eugen and Josefa Czernin, the now deceased parents of the author, were automatically given German citizenship, under a German decree of 20 April 1939.

Nor has the author challenged, and the Committee does not question, the authority of the 1945 presidential decree, which required that ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland who wished to remain in Czechoslovakia, had to demonstrate their wartime opposition to Germany's fascist regime.

The end of communist autocracies in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and even Czechoslovakia brought about a dramatic wave of state creation. Likewise, no one should be surprised if democratization in the Arab world, difficult as it might be, brings in its wake a redrawing of borders.