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The Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel formally ended the Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR, at the last session of its political committee in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on July 1st, 1991. On the photo from left: Foreign Minister of Poland Krzysztof Skubiszewski, Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier, xxx, President of Romania Ion Iliescu, Soviet Vice-President Gennady Yanayev, Czechoslovakia´s Premier Marian Calfa, Vaclav Havel, Prime Minister of Romania Peter Roman, Prime Minister of Poland Jan K. Bielecki, President of Poland Lech Walesa, President of Bulgaria Zhelyu Zhelev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Geza Jeszenszky, Prime Minister of Hungary Jozsef Antall. (KEYSTONE/CTK Photo/Petr Maticka)