page_title: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
section_title: Aims
hierarchical_section_title: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions / Aims
context_page_description: The Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks were a series of negotiations held in Vienna between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries between 1973 and 1989.
context_section_description: The aim of the negotiations was an agreement on disarmament and control of conventional arms and armed forces in the territories of Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (from NATO) and  East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland (from the Warsaw Pact). The talks were attended by representatives from these nations, as well as the United States, Britain, Canada and the Soviet Union.
caption: The Hofburg Palace in Vienna, where the talks were held
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