Russia is reporting Convention on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was appointed as the representative of the president when discussing this initiative in the Russian parliament. The corresponding order of Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, May 10, was published on the official portal of regulatory legal acts.
“To appoint the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Alekseevich Ryabkov as the official representative of the President of the Russian Federation when the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation was discussing the issue of the termination of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces. In Europe, signed in Paris on November 19, 1990 ‘ says the text.
The CFE Treaty was signed by the 16 countries of the North Atlantic Alliance and the six member states of the Warsaw Pact Organization, this document was adapted in 1997.
At the same time, NATO countries did not ratify the updated version, continuing to adhere to the 1990 provisions, which included conventional weapons norms based on the balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. TASS.
An updated version of the agreement was signed at the OSCE summit in Istanbul in 1999. The vague agreement implied the creation of a system to limit the number of conventional weapons – tanks, armored fighting vehicles, artillery pieces, combat aircraft and attack helicopters.
The adapted agreement was ratified by four countries – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, but the document was signed by representatives of 30 countries.
In 2007, the Russian Federation, “NATO countries [его] will not approve it and will not begin to implement it in good faith.”
On March 11, 2015, Russia completed the process of suspending its participation in the Treaty by suspending its participation in the ECCA Joint Advisory Group meetings, but remains fully legally involved. From that moment on, the interests of the Russian Federation in the Joint Advisory Group were represented by Belarus, he writes. DEA News.
Suspension of participation in START
Recall that on February 28, 2023, Putin signed a law suspending Russia’s participation in the Strategic Offensive Weapons Treaty (START).
As stated in the explanatory note, the agreement signed in Prague on 8 April 2010 states that each of the parties has the right to carry out inspection activities to ensure the control of compliance with its provisions.
“At the same time, the United States deliberately fails to fulfill its treaty obligations in this field of activity,” the text reads.
The President of the Russian Federation previously said that Russia suspended its participation in START, but did not withdraw from the agreement.
“The US presidential administration and its divisions, which extended this agreement for five years in 2021, began taking some irrational actions to undermine this agreement as soon as Joe Biden took the presidency in the White House. And I think they are trying to gain a one-sided advantage over their wives by sliding, not washing.
One gets the impression that part of the administration absolutely needs this deal as it allows control over the development of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, while the other seems that it doesn’t: it prevents Washington from establishing its hegemony with the toughest and most formidable powers. destructive weapons It would seem, according to them, START should be destroyed as the last equal agreement, which prevents the achievement of this goal, ”says TASS military observer Viktor Litovkin.