Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western foreign ministers began their talks by agreeing to submit a draft arms-control treaty to Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna...
NATO negotiators then placed the draft on the bargaining table in Vienna, several hours after the Warsaw Pact offered its plan...
...Soviet Union wants to reduce NATO and Warsaw Pact troops in Europe to 1.35 million for each side, with the Soviets and U.S. limited to 350,000 each. The U.S. says it has just 305,000 troops in Europe now. Bush has proposed that U.S. and Soviet forces be capped at 275,000 apiece. According to NATO, that would mean a reduction of 30,000 U.S. troops and 325,000 Soviet soldiers. At Malta, Bush called for resolving the differences by next year...
...speaks of confederation today, one must ask, On what basis? It would be necessary to have a common foreign policy, a common defense policy. I ask you, Do these conditions exist? We are prepared to leave the Warsaw Pact, if the Federal Republic is prepared to leave NATO. So long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible...
Allow me to add that I think that in the future the Warsaw Pact and NATO will have greater political importance than military, and that it is in this context that a common "European home" will be built...