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MOSCOW--Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze says the Soviet Union is willing to negotiate an end to the NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances and plans to eliminate its own overseas bases by the year...
Without specifically mentioning any East bloc country, he said Moscow would henceforth relate to its Warsaw Pact allies on the basis of "sovereign equality, the impermissibility of any kind of intervention and the recognition that each country has the right to absolute freedom of choice...
...said his government is "prepared to head toward the dissolution of the military-political blocs in Europe" in a mutual arrangement worked out by NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...added, however, that despite recent historic changes in the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union considers that "all our obligations remain in force...
...said that as the Soviet Union tried to move forward on arms treaties based on the pact "there stood the station, the size of an Egyptian pyramid, representing, to put it bluntly, a violation of the ABM treaty...