Decree No 81 / 1971 Coll.
Decree of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Establishment and Activity of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague
Valid
Effective from 12.05.1971
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DECLARATION
Minister for Foreign Affairs
of 1 June 1971
on the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Establishment and Operation of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague
On 12 May 1971 the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the establishment and operation of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague was signed in Prague.
Pursuant to Article 11 thereof, the Agreement entered into force on 12 May 1971.
The Czech version of the Agreement is hereby published at the same time.
Minister:
Ing. Marko v. r.
AGREEMENT
between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the establishment and operation of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague
The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics conducted by an effort, in the spirit of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance negotiated between the two States on 6 May 1970, to further deepen cooperation in the field of political, scientific and cultural relations, decided to conclude the following agreement:
The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic agrees to establish a scientific and cultural centre of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
This centre will bear the name "House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague" (hereinafter referred to as the House).
The mission of the House is to help consolidate eternal and inseparable friendship between the peoples of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, to familiarise the Czechoslovak public with the achievements of the Soviet Union in the construction of communism, with the achievements of Soviet science, technology, literature and art, with the foreign policy of the Soviet state and with the life of Soviet people.
The House operates in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in close cooperation with the Society of Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship, as well as the Union of Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship, with the Czechoslovak state and social authorities and organisations to which it provides the necessary assistance to develop friendly cultural and scientific contacts between the two states.
The House relies on plans for scientific and cultural cooperation between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as plans for cooperation between Czechoslovak and Soviet social organisations.
The House will provide and finance the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Affairs. This activity is carried out with active support from Soviet state and social authorities and organisations.
The House is a separate legal person whose activity covers the entire territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and is governed by the relevant legislation in force in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
The Director of the House is fully responsible for his activities and for compliance with the laws in force in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Soviet citizens, sent to work in the House, are subject to the relevant Czechoslovak legislation as well as to the relevant agreements concluded between the two States.
To ensure the operation Local workers from Czechoslovak state citizens or Soviet state citizens living in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic may be employed.
Czechoslovak citizens and Soviet citizens who are resident in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic are covered by the labour and social legislation of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
These staff will be recruited through the Service Administration to the diplomatic corps of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
In its activities The house makes extensive use of various ways of information and cultural mass work:
- organise lectures, meetings, thematic evenings, meetings with Czechoslovak and Soviet well-deserved industry and agriculture workers, science, technology, literature and art workers on various issues of science, technology and social policy;
- organizes the work of the scientific and technological library, as well as the library of artistic literature and the methodical cabinet of Russian language, systematically assisting Russian language teachers in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and those who are self-learning Russian language;
- holding press conferences and meetings with the Czechoslovak public, press representatives, radio and television, extending Soviet news and information material about the Soviet Union, including its own publications and information material;
- free public screening of artistic, documentary, popular scientific and amateur films, film festivals, concerts and performances of Czechoslovak and Soviet artists and participants in artistic creativity;
- organise exhibitions on the various areas of activity and life of the Soviet Union nations, on the friendship and cooperation of the Czechoslovak and Soviet people;
- provides Czechoslovak organisations and citizens with temporary free use of films, exhibitions, books, gramophone boards, tape recorders, slides and diaphragms;
- organizes clubs of lovers of Soviet music, theatre, cinema, art, etc.;
- organise cultural programmes, various meetings and other events for children.
In order to examine the requirements and wishes of the various layers of the population of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the House, in order to improve its work, can organise social commissions for the different types of focus of the House, in which Czechoslovak citizens who are interested can participate.
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic will provide the House with premises for its activities under a special agreement.
The house will use conference hall, screening and lecture hall, exhibition hall, scientific and technical library and library of art literature with reading rooms, methodical cabinet of Russian language, film, photo and phonotera and other reception and service rooms, as well as the shop of Soviet goods and restaurants.
Selling and restaurants will be operated by Czechoslovak economic organisations and will operate with the support of the Soviet Party on the basis of specific agreements between the House and these organisations.
The interior equipment of the House, cultural information equipment, means of transport of the House, office supplies, as well as books, magazines, gramophone boards and other promotional and information material intended for the operation of the House shall be released free of duty provided that they are not disposed of.
The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may, where necessary, negotiate appropriate protocols to this Agreement.
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of signature.
This Agreement shall be concluded for an unlimited period and may be terminated in writing by each Contracting Party on the basis of a six-month notice period.
Written in Prague on 12 May 1971 in two copies, each in the Czech and Russian languages, the two texts being equally authentic.
For the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic:
M. Lân v. r.
For the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
S. Worvinenko v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Minister of Foreign Affairs No. 81 / 1971 Coll., on the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Establishment and Activity of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 31.08.1971 |
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| Effective from | 12.05.1971 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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