When was the austrian state treaty

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A new political option had taken shape: neutrality on the model of Switzerland. As discussions went on concerning the position Austria should take in the face of the balance of power between East and West, the idea of neutrality was time and again advanced, at that point in time mostly as a product of practical reason rather than moral conviction.

In the spring of a solution was negotiated that satisfied the Soviets and was also accepted by the Western Powers, who had long been sceptical about neutrality as a solution favoured by Moscow. Immediately after approving the State Treaty on 7 June , the National Council adopted a resolution on the declaration of neutrality that called on the government to prepare a law to that effect; this met the conditions for the ratification of the State Treaty by the Allied Powers.

Neutrality, associated in collective memory with the end of a ten-year occupation, had become part and parcel of the new national consciousness of the people of Austria.