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NATO and a new European Order Address Given by Secretary General, Manfred Wörner to the Italian Senate19 Apr. 1990 . Europe will continue to change for many years yet. The demise of the Warsaw Pact, the end of the military confrontation of the Cold War, the imminent prospect of German unity ha ve all fundamentally changed the terrain before the Alliance. We are already | Opinion |
Warsaw Treaty Organisation Foreign Ministers meeting in Prague17 Mar. 1990 Warsaw Treaty Organisation Foreign Ministers meeting in Prague support the continuation of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. | News |
Atlantic Alliance and German Unity Speech by Secretary General, Manfred Wörner at the Uberseeclub08 Feb. 1990 to promote under-standing with the East - for instance more exchanges between military academies, reciprocal troop visits, seminars to enhance shared learning. Comparison of NATO with the Warsaw Pact is only conceivable or useful if the latter | Opinion |
German reunification01 Jan. 1990 . NATO welcomed West Germany as a member on 6 May 1955, a day after its status as an occupied country came to an end (the Bonn-Paris conventions came into effect on 5 May 1955). East Germany became a member of the Warsaw Pact when it was formed a few days | Declassified |
NATO Summit Meeting in Brussels04 Dec. 1989 the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces and repudiates the Brezhnev Doctrine of limited sovereignty. | News |
Final Communiqué Chairman: Manfred Wörner29 Nov. 1989 requirements must continue to be assessed against the realities of Warsaw Pact military capabilities. We welcome the initiation of unilateral conventional force reductions by the Soviet Union and some of its allies, but we cannot ignore the fact that, even | Official text |
The Alliance-A Key Player in the future Speech by Secretary General Manfred Wörner at the 35th Annual Assembly of the Atlant...26 Oct. 1989 autonomy; and then the political: first and foremost, the Warsaw Pact must scale back its forces in Eastern Europe to a level where an attack is impossible. Our proposals to eliminate conventional disparities and provide for stringent stabilization | Opinion |
Final Communiqué25 Oct. 1989 . Nevertheless, we recognized the continuing capability of the forces of the Warsaw Pact for offensive military action. We confirmed our long-standing commitment to keep NATO's nuclear forces responsive, survivable and effective across the required spectrum | Official text |
NATO Speech: Reshaping East-West Address by Secretary General, Manfred Wörner to a Eurogroup Seminar on "NATO: Partnership a...12 Oct. 1989 it has repudiated a bilateral treaty with its Warsaw Pact ally, the GDR, in order to uphold its commitments under the Helsinki Final Act. Hungarians are planning now for the first completely free election ever to be held in a communist country | Opinion |
Address given at the 35th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly09 Oct. 1989 to mark the 21st anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion; or in Leipzig calling for freedom of speech. Clearly the peoples of the East have not become accustomed to their lot. Totalitarian rule has not made people less attracted by freedom, democracy | Opinion |