A non-aggression pact is an international treaty between two or more states agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. Sometimes such a pact may include a pledge of avoiding armed conflict even if participants find themselves fighting third countries, including allies of one of the participants.
It was a popular form of international agreement in the 1920s and 1930s, but has largely fallen out of use after the Second World War. The most famous is the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which lasted until the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Examples of such pacts in history:
- Peace of Callias 450 BC
- Treaty of London (1518)
- Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
- German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
- German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact
- German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact
- Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
- Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
During negotiations between the United States and North Korea in 2003, North Korea offered to eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program if both sides signed a non-aggression treaty (along with multiple other conditions). As of this date, however, a nonaggression treaty between the two has yet to be formulated.
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