TheMoscow Protocol (Czech:Moskevský protokol andSlovak:Moskovský protokol, officiallyProtocol of the negotiations of theČSSR andUSSR delegations) was a document signed byCzechoslovak political leaders inMoscow, after thePrague Spring. The negotiations took place from 23 to 26 August 1968. The main signatories were PresidentLudvík Svoboda, First Secretary of the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of CzechoslovakiaAlexander Dubček, Prime MinisterOldřich Černík, Chairman of the National AssemblyJosef Smrkovský and most of the ministers and Communist Party leaders (Gustáv Husák among them). The only person present at the negotiations who declined to sign wasFrantišek Kriegel.[1][2]
The document included among its many expectations, promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia, to act upon the promises made in theBratislava Declaration, to denounce the 14th Party Congress and its resolutions, to restrain critical Czechoslovak media, and to reject any interference in theEastern Bloc by theUnited Nations Security Council.
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