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State Boundaries and Third States – Issue of Opposability. Remarks on the Polish-West German Normalization Treaty of 1970

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  • Władysław Czapliński
Władysław Czapliński
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Published 2023-01-31

Keywords

  • Potsdam Agreement,
  • Polish-German border,
  • objective regimes in international law,
  • treaties and third parties

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State Boundaries and Third States – Issue of Opposability. Remarks on the Polish-West German Normalization Treaty of 1970. (2023). Polish Yearbook of International Law, 41, 105-119. https://doi.org/10.24425/PYIL.2022.142342

Abstract

The Western boundary of Poland was established by the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 and confrmed by the Boundary Agreement between Poland and the GDR of Gőrlitz of 1950. Poland exercised administration with respect to the adjudicated territories, but she made efforts to get the boundary recognized and confrmed by the FRG. This happened on the basis of the Warsaw Treaty of 1970. Boundary treaties are usually considered as objective regimes. It is disputable whether the Warsaw Treaty of 1970 can be classifed as such a regime.

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