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The Warsaw Pact, 1955
PREAMBLE
Preamble
Between the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the
Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's
Republic, the Rumanian People's Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the
Czechoslovak Republic, May 1, 1955
The contracting parties,
Reaffirming their desire for the organisation of a system of collective security in
Europe, with the participation of all the European states, irrespective of their social
and state systems, which would make it possible to combine their efforts in the interests
of securing peace in Europe,
Taking into consideration at the same tirne the situation obtaining in Europe as the
result of ratification of the Paris agreements, which provide for the formation of a new
military grouping in the shape of the "Western European Union" together with a
remilitarised Western Germany, and for the integration of Western Germany in the North
Atlantic bloc, which increases the threat of another war and creates a menace to the
national security of the peaceloving states,
Convinced that, under these circumstances, the peaceloving states of Europe should take
the necessary measures for safeguarding their security, and in the interests of
maintaining peace in Europe,
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,