Address given by Piet Dankert on the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement (Schengen, 19 June 1990)
Text On 19 June 1990, at the ceremony held in Schengen to mark the signing of the Convention implementing the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders signed in Schengen on 14 June 1985, Piet Dankert, Junior Minister in the Netherlands Foreign Ministry and Chairman of the meeting, delivers an address in which he welcomes this agreement on the abolition of the internal borders of the five signatory countries, despite the difficulties encountered during the negotiations.
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Source: Bulletin de documentation. dir. de publ. Service Information et Presse - Ministère d'Etat. 1990, n° 3. Luxembourg. "La signature de la Convention d'application de l'Accord de Schengen", auteur:Dankert, Piet , p. 10-11.
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