Editing Eastern Pact (section)

===Early Negotiations ===
Paul-Boncour and Litvinov, the French and Soviet foreign ministers respectively, met in Geneva just as Germany left the League of Nations in October of 1933.<blockquote>"Secret meetings began to be held immediately, and in spite of early differences, by the end of December the Soviet ambassador was able to present Paul-Boncour with a written draft. This was to form the basis for the negotiations over the Eastern Pact."<ref>Radice (1977) The Eastern Pact, 47</ref></blockquote>A month later the Soviet Union adopted the policy of '''Collective Security''', officially ending the German-Soviet Rapallo relations.<ref name=":2" /> One of the main preconditions for the Eastern Pact was the Soviet accession to the League of Nations,<ref name=":0" /> which was achieved in September of 1934.<ref>Library of the President of the Russian Federation, https://prlib.ru/en/history/619549</ref>