Warsaw Pact foreign ministers ended a two-day meeting Friday with a declaration of sovereignty and non-interference in each other's affairs that effectively abolishes the Brezhnev Doctrine that led to continued Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.

A final communique issued at the meeting ensures the right of each nation to independently decide its own form of government, free from any outside interference or intimidation.The seven Warsaw Pact ministers said such a right is essential to long term peace and stability in Europe.

The meeting, which began Thursday is the first in the alliance's 34-year history to be hosted by a non-communist government. Poland installed the first non-communist government in the East bloc in August, after a Solidarity-led coalition defeated the Communist Party in parliamentary elections.

"One of the essential prerequisites for the building of a secure, peaceful and indivisible Europe is to respect the right of each nation to independently decide about its fate (and) freely choose the roads of its social, political and economic development, with no external interference," the ministers said in a communique.

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The statement ensuring the sovereignty of alliance members repudiates the pact's long-standing policy as dictated by Moscow allowing for the Soviet Union to take action to preserve communist regimes in Eastern Europe.

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