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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (3rd-R, second row) looks on while East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere (2nd-R) signs the treaty on German reunification September 12, 1990 in Moscow flanked by Foreign Ministers Hans-Dietrich Genscher (R) of West Germany and (R-L) Roland Dumas of France, Eduard Shevardnadze of Soviet Union, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, and US Secretary of State James Baker, the four representatives of the Allied powers. A date for German reunification was agreed three weeks ago when the East German parliament voted in favour of October 3, 1990. (KEYSTONE/AFP PHOTO/Vitaly Armand)