The United States had no intention of engaging in dialogue with Russia on collective security and circumvented the group restrictions of the European Conventional Armed Forces Treaty (CFE). This statement was made by Russia’s Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov. RIA News.
“A conversation on the merits was not part of Washington’s plans,” the diplomat emphasized.
He noted that American officials “believed in their own impunity”, so they accelerated NATO’s expansion by openly circumventing the group restrictions of the CFE Treaty.
The diplomat recalled that Washington was openly involved in a hybrid war with Russia “at the hands of the Ukrainians.” Antonov pointed out that under these conditions, even the formal preservation of Moscow’s participation in the agreement is unacceptable from the point of view of the national interests of the Russian Federation.
The other day at NATO Reacted On Russia’s withdrawal from the CFE Agreement. The Alliance called on states that share the principles of transparency and reciprocity to join efforts to increase the predictability of stability in the Euro-Atlantic region.
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