Tripartite Summit between Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (Budapest, 15 February 1991)

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At a Tripartite Summit held on 15 February 1991, Václav Havel, President of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, József Antall, Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, and Lech Walesa, President of the Republic of Poland, establish the Visegrad Group (named after a town near Budapest) by signing the ‘Declaration on cooperation between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary in striving for European integration’. They also decide to wind up the institutions created in connection with the Cold War and to disband the Warsaw Pact. The dissolution of the Pact would officially take effect in Prague on 1 July 1991.

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Source: Hungary-Warsaw Treaty-Dissolution [online]. Kovacs, Attila. INTERFOTO/BELGA/AFP, 15.02.1991. Colour.
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Tripartite Summit between Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (Budapest, 15 February 1991)