The aim of the declaration was to improve the relations between both countries and to lessen the tensions still stemming from the Second World War.
This passage, though it is a compromise, is among the most controversial parts of the declaration in both countries – the German side declined to acquiesces to the Czech demands to declare the Munich Agreement null right from the start (as France and Italy did in the past) however they acknowledge the Czech right to consider it null.
The sentence that "the wrongs committed are problem of the past" caused wide dissent among the Sudeten German organizations pushing for reparations for the expulsion.
The seventh part creates the joint Czech–German Fund for the Future, to be primarily used to support the victims of Nazi Germany.
The final, eighth part is an agreement of both sides that this common history must be researched together and they promise to create a Czech–German discussion forum to breed Czech–German dialogue.