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Russia is withdrawing from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty), the denunciation of the treaty will be carried out in the near future, the relevant decree has already been signed by the president. The document is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.
Russia is withdrawing from the CFE Treaty, the decision on this should be approved by the Russian parliament. Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as the official representative responsible for the denunciation of the treaty, which was suspended in 2007.
- the document says.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was signed on November 19, 1990 between the countries of the NATO bloc and the Warsaw Pact. The document was signed by representatives of 16 countries on the one hand and six on the other. The document was supposed to establish a secure military balance in Europe. After the collapse of the USSR and the entry of some of the countries of the former Warsaw Pact into NATO, the limits established by the treaty lost their meaning and in 1999 a new version of the CFE Treaty was signed, which was ratified by Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, no one ratified the treaty from the Western side.
In 2007, Russia suspended the CFE Treaty until Western countries bring their armed forces into line with the treaty and ratify it. Recent events have shown that it is possible to wait for this indefinitely, the West does not intend to fulfill the agreement, which means it loses its meaning.
