A plenary meeting was held in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, during which a law was adopted on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
The draft denunciation of the CFE treaty was submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament on May 10.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed in Paris in 1990, and 9 years later an updated version of the agreement was signed at the OSCE summit in Istanbul.
The adapted treaty has only been ratified by four states: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2007, the Russian Federation suspended its participation in the CFE Treaty “until NATO countries ratify the Adaptation Agreement and begin to implement this document in good faith”.
Earlier, political scientist Yuri Svetov said that Russia had long since started the process of terminating the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), because the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) n had not tried to adapt the document to the new requirements. The expert recalled that in 2007 a moratorium had been imposed on compliance with the requirements of the contract.
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