proposed European collective security treaty
유럽 집단안보조약 제안
A pan-European security scheme presented by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov at the 1954 Berlin Conference. It proposed common guarantees among European states while assigning the United States observer status, and sought to block or replace the development of NATO and the European Defence Community.
In depth
The Soviet draft envisaged participation by all European states regardless of their social systems and proposed that both German governments participate before German reunification. Molotov argued that dividing Europe into hostile military groups increased the danger of war, while the treaty's implementation would entail dismantling NATO and abandoning the EDC. Western governments rejected the proposal because it excluded the United States and, in their view, left Soviet domination of Eastern Europe intact.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) (supports the 1954 Soviet proposal for a General European Treaty, its intended openness to European states, and its opposition to NATO and the EDC)
- history.state.gov (U.S. delegation telegram reproducing Molotov's presentation and the Soviet proposal's aims at the Berlin Conference, 11 February 1954)
- cvce.eu (CVCE archival collection item on the Molotov Plan and European defence, Paris 1954)