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Secretary General's Corner - Berlin Wall: the Desire for Freedom - 11 November 200911 Nov. 2009 the right to decide their own future. The Cold War came to a peaceful conclusion. And NATO played an important role to this end. First by uniting the democracies in North America and Western Europe in a collective defence against the communist Warsaw | Opinion |
Opening Remarks by Madeleine K. Albright at the First Seminar on NATO's Strategic Concept 'NATO’s Fundamental Security Tasks ' held in Luxembourg16 Oct. 2009 a decade ago still applies. We declared then that: Our alliance would continue even in the absence of the Warsaw Pact. It would remain open to qualified new members. It would consider missions that respond to dangers arising outside | |
''NATO and Russia: A New Beginning'' - Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Carnegie Endowment, Brussels18 Sep. 2009 and continue to burden our relationship. Put simply, Russia expected NATO to be dissolved when the Warsaw Pact collapsed. Because it didn’t, many in Russia can only find one explanation – that the Alliance still sees Russia as a threat. And every thing we do | Opinion |
NATO: securing our future - Secretary General’s Speech at The Hague, 6 July 200906 Jul. 2009 is a major factor that will influence our strategic calculations in the future. We do not know yet if deterrence will work among a large number of nuclear states in the way that it worked successfully between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War | Opinion |
Lecture by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the Academy of State, Astana24 Jun. 2009 . And so we started to develop diplomatic relations with the countries of the former Warsaw Pact, including Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan, together with many other countries, emerged as independent nations, all of these nations | Opinion |
1956: Khrushchev delivers his ''secret speech''06 Mar. 2009 , the Soviet Union had set up its kind of alternative structure called the Warsaw Treaty Association or the Warsaw Pact. So question for today is how do we explain this sort of massive transformation in such a short space of time from an organisation | |
1949: NATO’S Anxious Birth05 Mar. 2009 afterwards as a “carbuncle on the skin of the Warsaw Pact”, a constant sore, a western enclave in the very, very heart of the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe. But of course the Berlin airlift together with another event which I will describe immediately | |
1979: The Soviet Union deploys its SS20 missiles and NATO responds04 Mar. 2009 seemed to pledge the Europeans to accept conventional war fighting in Europe. It took many years before that new strategy was adopted. But by the 1970s ladies and gentlemen, it was also clear that the Warsaw Pact, the other camp, the communist bloc | |
1967: De Gaulle pulls France out of NATO’s integrated military structure03 Mar. 2009 Union or the Warsaw Pact. Probably it could not have been stopped. The French Ambassador, a few years later, François de Rose said that, of de Gaulle, I quote "Pulling out was the decision he wanted, the rest was pretext." And Gabriel Robin, a very | |
1989: The Berlin Wall comes down and the soldiers go home02 Mar. 2009 of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American | Opinion |
