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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, CO-OPERATION AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE' ...
... In the interests of further strengthening and promoting friendship, co-opcration and mutual assistance, in accordance with the principles of respect for the independence and sovereignty of states, and also with the principle of noninterference in their internal affairs, ...
... Have resolved to conclude this Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance, . . . ...


ARTICLE-4     [go to this ARTICLE]
... In the event of an armed attack in Europe on one or several states that are signatories of the treaty by any state or group of states, each state that is a party to this treaty shall, in the exercise of the right to individual or collective self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations Organisation, render the state or states so attacked immediate assistance, individually and in agreement with other states that are parties to this treaty, by all the means it may consider necessary, including the use of armed force. The states that are parties to this treaty shall immediately take council among themselves concerning the necessary joint measures to be adopted for the purpose of restoring and upholding international peace and security. ...