Despite this, NATO continued to expand, and all the former Warsaw Pact countries became new members. In addition, the Baltic States, which were part of the former Soviet Union, also became NATO ...

The Pact consists of five separate but interlinked laws that lay down rules for all 27 member states to collectively ... the question and instead praised Warsaw's actions on the ground.

several fellow Warsaw Pact nations made their objections known in a July communiqué, saying the Czechoslovak reform program jeopardizes the common vital interests of other socialist countries”.