Warsaw Pact to Hold Summit on Military Future
The Warsaw Pact will hold a summit in Hungary early next month on the future of the Soviet-led military alliance following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, Soviet sources said Friday.
The Nov. 3-4 meeting in Budapest of the alliance, cut from seven to six members by East Germany’s absorption into NATO as part of a united Germany, will discuss the group’s military future, the sources said.
The sources said the summit, formally known as a meeting of the pact’s Political Consultative Committee and normally attended by heads of state, will probably be the last, now that the East-West Cold War is over.
Warsaw Pact commanders discussed the summit Thursday in Bucharest during a regular session of the pact’s military council, they said.
The Warsaw Pact groups the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
All except the Soviet Union have replaced communist regimes with freely elected governments committed to building parliamentary democracy and a market economy.
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