On 14 May 1955, the
USSR and other seven European countries "reaffirming their desire for the establishment of a system of European collective security based on the participation of all European states irrespective of their social and political systems"
[34] established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into
NATO, declaring that: "a remilitarized Western Germany and the integration of the latter in the North-Atlantic bloc [...] increase the danger of another war and constitutes a threat to the national security of the peaceable states; [...] in these circumstances the
peaceable European states must take the necessary measures to safeguard their security