ABSTRACT
In Vienna the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries claimed that the armed forces of the WTO numerically exceeded those of NATO in Central Europe by about 200,000 men. Faced with the refusal of the West to accept a radical reduction of troops and armaments in Central Europe, the countries of the Warsaw Pact tried to find at least a partial solution to this problem which would break the deadlock in the Vienna talks. The proposals of the NATO states completely avoided an integral part of the agreed purpose of the Vienna talks, namely, the question of reducing and limiting armaments and military equipment. The Socialist countries are working actively in Vienna in their search to overcome the stalemate in the talks. The main requirement at the Vienna talks is the political will to come to an agreement that would not upset the approximate balance of forces in Central Europe.
