Deputies of the State Duma of Russia unanimously adopted a law on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Also, for Russia, a number of international treaties related to the CFE Treaty are automatically terminated.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed in 1990 and entered into force two years later. It contains provisions on quantitative restrictions on the deployment of weapons by NATO countries and members of the Warsaw Pact. In 1999, at the OSCE summit in Istanbul, an updated version of the CFE Treaty was signed, taking into account the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, but none of the NATO countries ratified this option.
In 2007, Russia was forced to declare a moratorium on the implementation of the terms of the agreement "in order to encourage Western countries to change their attitude towards ensuring European security."
"Since 2007, the situation in Europe in the field of conventional weapons has deteriorated markedly. The United States and its allies are pursuing a line of military confrontation with Russia, fraught with catastrophic consequences ... The current state of affairs requires the adoption of measures to denounce the Treaty and the beginning of internal procedures for the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from it, upon completion of which the depositary and other States Parties will be notified accordingly," the explanatory note to the document says.
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According to State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, Washington and Brussels, obsessed with the idea of building a unipolar world, destroyed the global security system, pushing the supposedly defensive NATO bloc to the east.
According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance turned out to be a "wolf in sheep's clothing", only attacked, destroying states, including Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria.
"Washington, using NATO, pumping the Kiev terrorist regime with weapons, destabilizes the situation in the world in order to maintain its hegemony. It provokes a global catastrophe," he wrote.
In turn, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov noted that a return to the CFE Treaty could occur if the West abandons its hostile policy and begins to look for conceptually different approaches.
"We will find a practical military-technical answer to military-technical measures, including the possible appearance of American troops on the territory of Finland. And we will ensure our security," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Speaking about the denunciation of the CFE Treaty, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said: "There is a road for him." According to him, now Russia will maximize the "production of weapons, military and special equipment and weapons."
"Now, and through the previously suspended international obligations, nothing prevents us from deploying our weapons where we want to protect national interests. Including our Russian part of Europe," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Director of the Center for Military-Political Studies at MGIMO, Alexei Podberezkin, in an interview with RT, called the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe "stillborn."
"We signed and ratified it, but the other side did not sign or ratify," the expert recalled, stressing that the real military-political situation "has changed radically."
Recall that on May 10, Vladimir Putin submitted a bill on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe to the State Duma for consideration. The head of state also appointed Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as his official representative during the consideration of Russia's denunciation of the CFE Treaty in parliament.