Non-aggression pact

Non-aggression pact

A non-aggression pact is an international treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. Sometimes such a pact may include a pledge of avoiding armed conflict even if participants find themselves fighting third countries, including allies of one of the participants.

It was a popular form of international agreement in the 1920s and 1930s, but has largely fallen out of use after the Second World War. Since the implementation of a non-aggression pact depends on the good faith of the parties, the international community following the Second World War adopted the norm of multilateral collective security agreements, such as the treaties establishing NATO, ANZUS and SEATO.

The most famous non-aggression pact is the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which lasted until the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Examples of such pacts in history:

• Peace of Callias (449-450 BC)
• Treaty of London (1518)
• Soviet–Lithuanian Non-Aggression Pact (September 28, 1926)
• Greek-Romanian Non-Aggression and Arbitration Pact (March 21, 1928)^[1]
• Soviet-Afghan Non-Aggression Pact (June 24, 1931)^[2]
• Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact (January 21, 1932)
• Soviet-Latvian Non-Aggression Pact (February 5, 1932)^[3]
• Soviet-Estonian Non-Aggression Pact (May 4, 1932)^[4]
• Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact (July 25, 1932)
• Soviet-Italian Non-Aggression Pact (September 2, 1933)^[5]
• Romanian-Turkish Non-Aggression Pact (October 17, 1933)^[6]
• Turkish-Yugoslav Non-Aggression Pact (November 27, 1933)^[7]
• German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact (January 26, 1934)
• Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance (May 2, 1935)
• German-Danish Non-Aggression Pact (May 31, 1939)^[8]
• German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact (June 7, 1939)
• German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact (June 7, 1939)
• Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (23 August 1939)
• British-Thai Non-Aggression Pact (June 12, 1940)^[9]
• Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (April 13, 1941)
• German–Turkish Non-Aggression Pact (June 18, 1941)

During negotiations between the United States and North Korea in 2003, North Korea offered to eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program if both sides signed a non-aggression treaty (along with multiple other conditions). As of this date, however, a nonaggression treaty between the two has yet to be formulated.

See also

• North Korea – United States relations

Notes

1. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 108, pp. 188-199.
2. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 157, pp. 372.
3. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 148, pp. 114-127.
4. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 131, pp. 298-307.
5. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 148, pp. 320-329.
6. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 165, p. 274.
7. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 161, p. 230.
8. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 197, p. 38.
9. ^ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 203, p. 422.

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