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The proposal not to expand NATO eastward, which was one of the ways Western countries took the initiative on the issue of German reunification and reducing the possibility of the Soviet Union's influence on this process, [12] was based on the provisions of the speech of German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in Tutzing, announced on January 31, 1990. [13]
The United States strongly supported Germany's membership in NATO, while the Soviet Union held reservations because it viewed NATO as a threat to Soviet security. It was concerned that NATO's potential to expand eastward by including Germany would weaken the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet military alliance. [1]
Some commentators, such as Stephen F. Cohen, [23] as well as Mikhail Gorbachev in 2008, [24] have advanced in later years the interpretation of a comment allegedly made by US Secretary of State, James Baker, to the effect that NATO would expand "not one inch eastward" in a unified Germany, as applying instead to Eastern Europe; [25] neither has ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- This year marks the 30th anniversary of Germany’s reunification at the end of the Cold War. More than a generation later, the diplomacy that made it possible is still a ...
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According to several news reports and memoirs of politicians, in 1990, during negotiations about German unification, the administration of then-US President George H.W. Bush made a ‘categorical assurance’ to the then-President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev: If Gorbachev agreed that a reunified Germany was part of NATO, then NATO ...
France and Germany disagree on the future of European defense, while Eastern European states, particularly Poland and the Baltics, still see America, not Brussels, as their primary security guarantor.
Ultimately he acquiesced to the reunification on the condition that NATO troops not be posted to the territory of Eastern Germany. [184] There remains some confusion over whether US secretary of state James Baker led Gorbachev to believe that NATO would not expand into other countries in Eastern Europe. There was no oral or written US promise ...