Instead, West Germany was accepted into NATO and armed as part of the alliance. As a direct response, the Warsaw Pact was formed on May 14, 1955. One of the first motions passed was the rearming ...

The move further into eastern Europe The fall of the Berlin Wall and the termination of the Warsaw Pact after the end of the Cold War opened up the possibility of further NATO enlargement.

"NATO now is a purely geopolitical project on colonizing the territory that became unclaimed after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact [Organization] and the break-up of the Soviet Union.

NATO and BRICS are two major international groups. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is a military alliance of 32 countries, mostly from North America and Europe. It was formed in 1949 to ...

KAZAN, October 23. /TASS/. NATO membership is not an obstacle to joining BRICS, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "From the point of view of BRICS and the main approaches of BRICS, there are ...

Donald Tusk, who was hosting the prime minister for discussions on a UK-Polish defence pact in Warsaw, said it was his ... discuss a defence pact with the NATO ally - which Mr Tusk said he ...