Editing Warsaw Pact (section)

=== Observers ===
{{flagcountry|MPR}}: In July 1963, the [[Mongolian People's Republic]] asked to join the Warsaw Pact under Article 9 of the treaty.<ref name="auto" /> Due to the emerging [[Sino-Soviet split]], Mongolia remained in an observer status.<ref name="auto" /> In what was the first instance of a Soviet initiative being blocked by a non-Soviet member of the Warsaw Pact, Romania blocked Mongolia's accession to the Warsaw Pact.<ref>{{cite book |first=Laurien |last=Crump |year=2015 |title=The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered: International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955–1969 |publisher=Routledge | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mLSgBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 |page=77| isbn = 978-1317555308}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_lfPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA398|publisher=Cambridge University Press|title=Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe|page= 398| isbn = 978-1108418331| last1 = Lüthi| first1 = Lorenz M.| date = 19 March 2020}}</ref> The Soviet government agreed to station troops in Mongolia in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-03-mn-1543-story.html|title=Soviet Troops to Leave Mongolia in 2 Years|agency=Reuters|date=3 March 1990|access-date=23 August 2018|via=LA Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010153559/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-03/news/mn-1543_1_soviet-union|archive-date=10 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

At first, [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[North Korea]], and [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam|North Vietnam]] had observer status,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freecontent.abc-clio.com/ContentPages/contentpage.aspx?entryid=2012183&currentSection=2012178&productid=2012177|title=Warsaw Treaty Organization|last=ABC-CLIO|date=3 March 1990|access-date=29 August 2020|archive-date=16 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816182114/http://freecontent.abc-clio.com/ContentPages/contentpage.aspx?entryid=2012183&currentSection=2012178&productid=2012177|url-status=dead}}</ref> but China withdrew in 1961 as a consequence of the [[Albanian-Soviet split]], in which China backed Albania against the USSR as part of the larger [[Sino-Soviet split]] of the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lüthi |first1=Lorenz M. |date=8 October 2007 |title=The People's Republic of China and the Warsaw Pact Organization, 1955–63 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682740701621762 |journal=[[Cold War History (journal)|Cold War History]] |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=479–494 |doi=10.1080/14682740701621762 |s2cid=153463433 |access-date=17 February 2023}}</ref>