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Updated: 06-Nov-2001 1958


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1958

1 Jan

Entry into force of the Treaty of Rome setting up the European Economic Community.

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26-29 Mar

First meeting of the NATO Science Committee.

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15-17 Apr

Defence Ministers of the NATO countries meeting in Paris reaffirm the defensive character of the NATO strategy.

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10 Nov

Khrushchev announces that the USSR wishes to terminate the Four-Power Agreement on the status of Berlin. The Plan was rejected by the Western Powers on December 3.

16-18 Dec

December Ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Council. The Council associates itself with the views expressed by the governments of France, the United Kingdom and the United States on Berlin and on the right of the Western Powers to remain there.

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