When the Warsaw Pact disbanded and the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO had fulfilled its role.
Ronald Reagan hated the Soviet occupation of the Warsaw Pact countries really, hated the oppression and violence.
The CFE treaty was adapted in 1999, eight years after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
But having a missile defense interceptors stationed on Polish soil, which used to be part of the Warsaw Pact.
The Soviet Union continues to enjoy considerable influence in the Warsaw Pact states.
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Not to be outsung, the Warsaw Pact came up with its own version of Eurovision - the Intervision Song Contest.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent demise of the Warsaw Pact, therefore, left Nato with no obvious purpose.
There are persistent and significant disagreements between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in counting the number of forces deployed by the Soviet bloc.
What is more, territory formerly constituting the front line of the Warsaw Pact has been peacefully incorporated into that of a NATO member state.
In 1968, Albania announced it was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.
NATO's doors to former members of the Warsaw Pact, the western allies have seen their relations with Russia plunge to their lowest level since the end of the cold war.
Either the Warsaw Pact still represents a major threat to vital Western security interests hence justifying the B-2 bomber, SDI, and other major defense expenditures or it does not.
In addition, and again different from the past when the West sought to deter the Warsaw Pact from projecting force outward, these rogue states see as their task deterring us from intervening in their regions.
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Today, the Commerce Department is informing the member nations of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) that the United States will decontrol the sale of wire-bonding technology to "proscribed destinations, " i.e. the Warsaw Pact.
To the extent the U.S. embarks on a major effort to provide foreign aid to East European members of the Warsaw Pact, it should ensure that such aid fosters real progress toward democracy and free market economies.
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We do not believe the Soviets have commenced any genuine reciprocation in Central America or the Warsaw Pact, nor do we believe there is any reason for optimism in all the talk about the economic restructuring of socialism.
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American representatives should similarly be directed to insist that no consideration be given to creating special exceptions or preferential treatment by COCOM for Soviet bloc nations that remain within the Warsaw Pact and the framework of corresponding Eastern bloc intelligence arrangements.
While China is in a category separate from the Warsaw Pact, we believe it appropriate for the United States, together with its COCOM partners to freeze (if not down-grade), the level of Western dual-use technology currently available to the Chinese government.
Like it or not, there is simply no way to ensure that strategic technology made available to Poland and Hungary will not be put to the service of the Warsaw Pact and the KGB-dominated intelligence apparatus in place throughout the Soviet empire.
But the end of communism also made it easier to start terrorist movements without government help, as a significant part of the Warsaw Pact's arsenal tonnes of Semtex, the Czech-made explosive, and tens of thousands of Kalashnikovs found their way on to the international black market.
The Center for Security Policy today issued a critical appraisal of the priorities of the Group of Seven industrialized countries in placing the economic and financial needs of the Warsaw Pact countries increasingly ahead of those of the Latin American debtor nations in certain areas.
As a result, even though the principal military threat against which Mr. Papandreou believed Greece needed to be defended was its NATO ally Turkey not the Warsaw Pact and despite his manifest determination not to use them, hundreds of millions of U.S. credits were annually showered on the Greek government.
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Is there any chance that the Administration will be led to accept either the Soviet proposal for membership in both alliances (NATO and the Warsaw Pact) or the latest Soviet proposal to leave the Alliance issue for a stage after unification (which the Kohl government rejects as an infringement on the sovereignty of a reunified Germany)?
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Europe, turning inward to absorb the former Warsaw Pact nations, made the fateful blunder of embracing the euro rather than a more aggressive program of reform in labor markets, subsidies and the like.
Rather than making the case for democracy unassailable, plenty of countries, including, alas, a few of the old Warsaw Pact members, most of the Arab world and China, have been able to run shamelessly repressive authoritarian regimes.
NATO's rejoicing over the entry, last month, of a first wave of new members from the former Warsaw Pact presumably to be followed at a later date by at least some of the nine other countries that have asked to join.
Bulgaria and Romania are the perennial laggards of the old Warsaw Pact.
For the time being, this may require the alliance to slow the pace of "progress" being made toward an agreement an accord that could otherwise legitimize and help shore up the very Warsaw Pact links that must be ruptured.
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