ABSTRACT
The fundamental change in the foreign policy course is connected with the new political thinking that was gradually developed with the liberation from dogmatic ideas and from conclusions which were only correct in their own time and which had ceased to correspond to the realities of our days. At the basis of the new thinking lies a recognition of the priority of human interests and values, of generally accepted norms of morality as the obligatory criterion of all policy, freedom of sociopolitical choice which rules out interference in the affairs of any state and the need for de-ideologization of relations between states. In the reality around us there are any number of cases that do not, it appears, follow the direction taken by the new thinking. There are the forces of the past and contradictions inherited from the past.
