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Joint Memorandum of the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of National Defense on the Future of the Warsaw Pact

6 Mar 1989
Description: After listing the benefits of Warsaw Pact membership for their country, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of National Defense outline the tendencies in new foreign policy, such as the easing of military confrontation and the shift in priority toward political and economic cooperation and humanitarian relations. These two factors, along with the Soviet Union's Perestroika reforms, necessitate reforms in the Warsaw Pact's structure. At the meeting of experts, the Hungarian delegation presses for substantial improvements in cooperation, attaching secondary importance to the structural problems, thus aligning itself more with the Soviet and Polish proposals for reform and distancing itself from the Romanian proposal.

Collection: Hungary and the W'Pact

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Document Type: Memorandum
Origin (Agency): Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungarian Ministry of National Defense
Sender: Péter Várkonyi, Hungarian Foreign Minister; Ferenc Kárpáti, Hungarian Minister of National Defense
Language of Original Document: Hungarian
Translators: Erwin Dunay
Number of Pages: 20
Cold War Period: 1985-1991
Persons: Gorbachev, Kupper, Bíró, Várkonyi, Kárpáti
Document Source: Hungarian State Archive (MOL), Budapest
Call Number: MOL M-KS-288. f. 5 f./1065 o.e.

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