On this day, 34 years ago, on February 25, 1991 (January 11, 1991 in the lunar calendar), the Warsaw Pact announced that it would be completely dissolved starting from April 01. Soviet Foreign Minister Besmertnykh (right) and Defense Minister Yazov announced at the meeting. On February 25, 1991, a special meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact signed in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, that all military institutions of the Warsaw Treaty Organization will be dissolved from April 1, 1991, and all military operations will be stopped. The foreign ministers and defense ministers of Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union, as well as the heads of the Warsaw Pact Joint Force, attended the meeting. The foreign ministers and defense ministers of the six countries signed the documents on behalf of their countries respectively. Since then, the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and eight Eastern European countries in May 1955 announced its disintegration. Previously, Albania withdrew after taking military action against Czech Republic after the Warsaw Pact, and the Democratic Republic of Germany announced its withdrawal in September 1990.