The CFE treaty was adapted in 1999, eight years after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
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.
In 1968, Albania announced it was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.
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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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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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.
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.
"The Bush Administration is to be commended for quickly and explicitly rejecting the Soviet suggestion that Germany might be a member of both the NATO and Warsaw Pact alliances, " said Frank J.
The Germans and other allies wish to sell the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations machine tools with the capability of producing, for example, advanced aviation components with an accuracy of plus-or-minus five microns (two ten-thousandths of an inch) or better.
On 30 September, President Yeltsin reportedly sent a letter to France, Germany, Britain and the United States warning against the admission of any former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO under present circumstances and proposing instead a joint guarantee of Eastern Europe's security.
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Turcotte said he encountered a similar lack of initiative among officials from former Warsaw Pact officials after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1994 Nato offered former Warsaw Pact members limited associations in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme, allowing them to participate in information sharing, joint exercises and peacekeeping operations.
In this connection, it is ironic that the Bush Administration claims that money is fungible and therefore the use of any type of capital controls toward Warsaw Pact countries will not work.
America and its European allies reserved the right to use nuclear weapons to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
The approach would be similar to those issued in countries like Germany and France when Poland and other former Warsaw Pact states became EU members in 2004.
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