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Warsaw Collective Security Pact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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A regular meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the member states of the Warsaw Pact was held in Moscow on March 28 and 29, 1961, according to press reports. Heads of government and military and political leaders of the eight member states were present, although there was considerable comment in the press when Albania sent Deputy Premier Begir Balluku instead of General Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the Albanian Communist Party. Communist China sent as an observer Liu Hsiao, Ambassador to Moscow. The Council on Mutual Economic Aid of the pact reportedly disclosed a new economic plan at the conference that called for the voluntary coordination of member nations' economic schemes and prospects for a twentyyear period through 1980. The project was to constitute a new form of international cooperation that would be the prototype for the economic relations of the future communist society. The Warsaw Pact nations also reportedly discussed military matters, including the situation in Germany.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1961 , pp. 333
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961

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References

1 The New York Times, March 29, 30, and 31, 1961. For a summary of previous activities of the Warsaw Pact, see International Organization, Spring 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 2), p. 362–363CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Member states of the Warsaw Collective Security Pact are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Romania.

3 The New York Times, July 24, 1960.