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| - A nonaggression pact was a treaty agreement between two or more governments to abstain from engaging in open warfare with each other. Nonaggression pacts may have lead to mutual cooperation in some matters and expanded trade, but were not as strong as formal alliances. In 2368, Jean-Luc Picard proposed signing a nonaggression pact with the Tamarians, "possibly leading to a trade agreement and cultural interchange" but Dathon was unable to understand what he said. (TNG: "Darmok" ) The establishment of a Bajoran nonaggression pact was a way the Dominion hoped would separate Bajor from the Federation. Weyoun came to Deep Space 9 in late 2373 to begin negotiations for the pact with Kai Winn Adami, but an agreement was not reached until sponsored by Emissary Benjamin Sisko as a method to prevent Bajor's ruin, in the event of war between the Dominion and the Federation and its allies. (DS9: "In the Cards") Among the terms of the pact were to allow Vorta facilitators to visit Bajor. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals") Shortly thereafter, the Dominion signed nonaggression pacts with the Tholians, the Miradorn, the Romulan Star Empire and eventually the Bajorans prior to the beginning of the Dominion War. Odo considered these to be impressive inroads into the Alpha Quadrant for the Dominion. (DS9: "Call to Arms") Writer Ronald D. Moore has stated that Bajor ended its nonaggression pact with the Dominion by 2375. (AOL chat, 1998 ) In 2374, Julian Bashir, Jack, Lauren, Patrick and Sarina Douglas predicted that if the Federation signed a peace treaty with the Dominion, the Romulans would vote to abandon the nonaggression pact with the Dominion at the upcoming plenary session. (DS9: "Statistical Probabilities") The Romulan Star Empire did withdraw from their agreement, but sooner and much differently than Jack and the others had predicted. It was due to the death of Senator Vreenak, the man who negotiated the Romulan pact, after he was apparently assassinated by the Dominion. In fact, his ship had been destroyed by a bomb planted there by Elim Garak. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight") In 2375, Kathryn Janeway negotiated a nonaggression pact with the Terkellians. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")
- 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 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 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
* Soviet-French non-aggression pact
* Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 1939
* 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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