Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, also called the Two Plus Four Treaty, was signed in Moscow by the two German states and the four wartime Allies, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. It ended the Allies' remaining rights in Germany and Berlin and made possible German unification, which took place a few weeks later on 3 October 1990. United Germany confirmed its existing borders, including the Oder–Neisse line with Poland, renounced nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and agreed to limit its armed forces. Soviet troops were to leave the former East Germany by 1994. The treaty thus replaced a formal peace treaty after the Second World War.

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