The People’s Assembly of the Republic of Albania approved the special law, which juridically freed Albania from any obligation arising from the Warsaw Treaty. The Warsaw Pact was a political-military alliance between the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Albania, signed in Warsaw (Poland) on May 14, 1955, with a term of 20 years. The provisions of the Warsaw Pact provided for mutual consultation between the participating states on important international problems, for joint action for military assistance in the event of an armed attack or a threat to one or several members of the treaty. It envisaged the existence of joint armed forces, predetermined for actions, under a unified command, with a unique doctrine and with a certain degree of organization and cooperation. The armed forces of the Warsaw Pact numbered 4,800,000 men, about 65,000 tanks, about 11,000 fighter planes and about 1,000 large warships. In February 1991, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact was signed in Budapest. (Pictured: Europe in 1960)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2736-2737.
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