FACT CHECK · EUROPE, RUSSIA AND NATO
Claim: The West promised NATO would not expand east
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Spoken, never signed. Baker told Gorbachev in Feb 1990 'not one inch to the east', in German talks. The 1990 treaty names no other country. Gorbachev, 2014: enlargement was 'not discussed at all'.
SOURCE
Wikipedia: Enlargement of NATO (Baker 1990; Gorbachev 2014)
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