Both governments had asked for the help of the governments of Argentina, Chile and the Andean Pact countries (Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru) to resolve the matter.
This proposal, made by four Andean Pact countries -Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia -invoked the Betancourt Doctrine (named after the former Venezuelan president).
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A further 6 Mi-8T and 18 Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters were bought from ex-Warsaw Pact countries during the war, but only 16 of those survived the war.
Peru too, looked good at one time and should have led UK publishers into the Andean Pact countries, but in fact the shining path has led elsewhere.
An aide, Michael Zantovsky, said that under the previous Government Czechoslovakia had supplied Semtex to all the Warsaw Pact countries, "and not at market prices, either."
As a result, Iraq become the first non-Warsaw Pact country to obtain the Su-25K and Su-25UBK combat trainer.
Products from the former colonies of EC member states, they pointed out, were covered under the Lomé Convention, and similar measures had recently been agreed for the Andean Pact countries.
On 25 February 1991, the Warsaw Pact was declared disbanded at a meeting of defense and foreign ministers from Pact countries meeting in Hungary.
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