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Article: Warsaw Pact Summit Urges Transformation;Leaders Endorse Cooperation With NATO
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- June 8, 1990
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President Mikhail Gorbachev joined East European leaders today in
calling for the transformation of the Warsaw Pact into a democratic
grouping of independent sovereign states, symbolically ending 45
years of Soviet military domination over Eastern Europe.
A statement issued after a one-day meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders
in Moscow said that the dissolution of the division of Europe into
opposing military blocs "is becoming irreversible." The leaders also
expressed a readiness for "constructive cooperation" with North
Atlantic Treaty Organization members and neutral states in the
creation of a new pan-European security system.
Today's meeting marked the first Warsaw Pact summit since the ...