An agreement between the two German sports associations DSB and DTSB collapses over the issue of the inclusion of West Berlin.
3-8 July
1973
In Helsinki, the "Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe" opens, attended by the foreign ministers of the 35 participating countries from East and West, including USA and Canada. The two German foreign ministers, Otto Winzer and Walter Scheel, meet on the sidelines of the conference.
RIAS report on the opening of the CSCE in Helsinki, 3 July 1973 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Mittag, Moderator/Reporter: Peter Schulz, Reinhold Dey)
28 July - 5 August
1973
World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin, 4 August 1973 (Photo: Bundesarchiv, Image 183-M0804-412, Photographer: Klaus Franke)
In East Berlin, the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students takes place.
30/31 July
1973
Third Crimea conference attended by the state and party leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries, 1 August 1973 (Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-M0801-017)
Third Crimea conference attended by leaders of Warsaw Pact countries. The unanimity over Brezhnev’s attitude to the global situation, particularly with regard to the policies of the Chinese communist party, is considerably disrupted by Romanian leader Nicolae Nicolae Ceausescu.
While Brezhnev condemns the "scrupulous conspiracy" of Beijing with the bourgeois countries as a "justification of the hegemonic ambitions of the Chinese leaders to attain leadership in the ‘Third World’", Ceausescu praises the normalisation of relations between China and the USA as a "contribution to reducing tensions". His proposals for working towards dissolving the Warsaw Pact while NATO was simultaneously disbanded, and for a cessation of criticism and condemnation of other parties, are vehemently rejected by Brezhnev in his final speech as "lacking in principle" and "opportunistic".less
