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| | Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The main characteristic features of the collection of deputy foreign ministers' meetings are outlined, such as the role and function of this forum in the mechanisms of the Warsaw Pact's foreign policy coordination, the publicity, the frequency, the venues and the participants of the meetings. |
 | | This was the point at which the meetings of deputy foreign ministers assumed a key role in that, on the one hand, the desired consensus was reached at this forum, and, on the other, issues on which there was no hope for a consensus, often did not make it to higher forums at all. |
 | | The flexible nature of the meetings of deputy foreign ministers was further enhanced by the fact that the participants attending this forum were often different, for there were 3 or 4 deputy ministers working at the ministries of foreign affairs of the member states. |
| www.isn.ethz.ch /php/documents/collection_3/DepFM_meetings/intro_bekes.htm (5775 words) |
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