ABSTRACT
Following the recent developments in the former Eastern and Central European countries, a series of reciprocity agreements has been signed between neighbouring countries, such as the Treaty on Good Neighbourliness and Cordial Cooperation’ between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland on June 17, 1991, the ‘Agreement on the Foundations of Relations between the Republic of Finland and the Russian Federation’ on January 22, 1992, or the ‘Treaty on Good Neighbourliness and Cordial Cooperation’ between the Federal Republic of Germany and the former Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on February 27, 1992. Other treaties have also been negotiated in 1992 between countries such as Ukraine and Poland, Poland and Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, Germany and Rumania. Similarly, an agreement was reached between Italy and Austria in June 1992 on the protection of the South Tyrol minority.
