In 1948, Finland had signed the YYA Treaty with the Soviet Union, and according to the Soviet point of view, this agreement prohibited Finland's membership in any alliances that it could consider being of military nature, even in those created for defensive reasons.

The Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, also known as the YYA Treaty from the Finnish ( Swedish: was the basis for Finno – Soviet relations from 1948 to 1992.

The YYA Treaty was a cornerstone in Paasikivi's foreign policy.

As leader of the Social Democrats, he was prime minister from 1948 to 1950, despite fierce Communist opposition and accusations by the Soviet Union that he intended to undermine the Finnish-Soviet YYA Treaty by taking Finland into NATO.

Finland entered into the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ( YYA Treaty ) with the Soviet Union, which in theory guaranteed mutual assistance, but the Soviet Union largely respected Finland's wishes to remain uninvolved in the Cold War.

Interestingly, the YYA treaty did not stop the Soviet Union from creating the Warsaw Pact in 1955.

The other major move was the renunciation of the Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 in 1991, concurrently with the fall of Soviet Union.

# REDIRECT Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948

# REDIRECT Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948

* Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 (), the basis for Finno – Soviet relations from 1948 to 1992

# REDIRECT Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948

The Cold War ( 1945 – 1989 ) provided a global network of material and ideological support that perpetuated civil wars, which were mainly fought in weak ex-colonial states, rather than the relatively strong states that were aligned with the Warsaw Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

Eleven days after the Soviet invasion of the polish Kresy, the secret protocol of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact was modified by the German – Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation ,) allotting Germany a larger part of Poland and transferring Lithuania's territory ( with the exception of left bank of river Scheschupe, the " Lithuanian Strip ") from the envisioned German sphere to the Soviets.

" German – Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty | Second Ribbentrop – Molotov Pact " of 28 September 1939.

Thirty-four years later, the Open Skies concept was reintroduced by President George H. W. Bush as a means to build confidence and security between all North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) and Warsaw Pact countries.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ( 1955 – 1991 ), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

In the West, the Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance is often called the Warsaw Pact military alliance ; abbreviated WAPA, Warpac, and WP.

The Warsaw Treaty ’ s organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.

At the close of the war, Italy made fewer gains than it had been promised in the London Pact, which was nullified with the Treaty of Versailles.

The Tripartite Pact, also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.

When the First World War ended, the Treaty of Versailles fell short of what had been promised in the London Pact to Italy.

The Central Treaty Organization ( also referred to as CENTO ( Central Eastern Treaty Organisation ); original name was Middle East Treaty Organization or METO ; also known as the Baghdad Pact ) was formed in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

* Rio Treaty or Rio Pact of 1947, more formally known as the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance

In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, known as the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, said:

Many North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) militaries refer to these incidents as blue on blue, which derives from military exercises where NATO forces were identified by blue pennants, hence " blue ", and units representing Warsaw Pact forces were identified by orange pennants.

1935, April 15 – A Treaty named “ international pact for protection of artistic and scientific institutions, historic monuments, missions and collections ” ( Roerich Pact ) was signed by representatives of 21 countries in White House, Washington.

However, the emblem of the Roerich Pact is still a valid protective sign in the relations between states which are bound by the Washington Treaty of 1935 but not by the Convention of 1954.

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

The USSR had signed a Treaty of Friendship with the Kuomintang in 1945 and disavowed support for the Chinese Communists.

Similar treaties were subsequently negotiated by the United Kingdom ( Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, October 1854 ), the Russians ( Treaty of Shimoda, 7 February 1855 ), and the French ( Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, 9 October 1858 ).

* Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty

* Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon paid an official visit to Ethiopia in October 1991, when a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation was signed between the two countries.

* Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon paid an official visit to Ethiopia in October 1991, when a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation was signed between the two countries.

Hoxha alleged that Tito had made it his goal to get Albania into Yugoslavia, firstly by creating the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Aid in 1946.

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and China reached a high point with the signing of the 1950 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance.

Lithuania's suspension of two strongly ethnic Polish district councils on charges of blocking reform or disloyalty during the August 1991 coup had cooled relations with Poland, but bilateral cooperation markedly increased with the holding of elections in those districts and the signing of a bilateral Friendship Treaty in 1994.

Nazi Germany had requested the territory west of the Šešupė River ( area in pink ) in the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty but relinquished its claims for a compensation in the amount of $ 7. 5 million

Secret protocols in the new agreement modified the " Secret Additional Protocols " of the German – Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, ceding the Lithuanian Strip to the Soviet Union in exchange for 7. 5 million dollars ( 31. 5 million Reichsmark ).

* 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship

The Court found in its verdict that the United States was " in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State ", " not to intervene in its affairs ", " not to violate its sovereignty ", " not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce ", and " in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956.

The Court had ruled on 26 November by 11 votes to one that it had jurisdiction in the case on the basis of either Article 36 ( i. e. compulsory jurisdiction ) or the 1956 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States and Nicaragua.

# Decides that, by the acts referred to in subparagraph ( 6 ) hereof the United States of America has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of Nicaragua signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has committed acts calculated to deprive of its object and purpose the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has acted in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America is under an obligation to make reparation to the Republic of Nicaragua for all injury caused to Nicaragua by the breaches of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

* 1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

In recent years, the country has sought to strengthen ties especially with the People's Republic of China by signing the Treaty of Friendship as well as building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline geared toward growing Chinese energy needs.