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[REGNUM] The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe is hopelessly outdated, and after the filing of applications for the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO and the decision on the possible deployment of American troops in Finland, it completely lost its relevance, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov said on May 10.
As previously reported, on May 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to submit to the State Duma a draft law on the denunciation of the CFE Treaty . The document was submitted to Parliament on the same day. The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky told reporters that the bill is likely to be considered at a plenary session of the lower house of parliament on May 16.
"The treaty, signed in 1990 and entered into force in 1992, is hopelessly outdated. The agreement on its adaptation, developed at the insistence of Russia and signed in 1999, never entered into force due to the destructive position of the United States and other NATO countries. The members of the alliance actually bypassed the provisions of the CFE Treaty in the process of its expansion to the east. Therefore, in 2007 we were forced to suspend the agreement. At the same time, they left the door open, giving the Western countries an opportunity to come to their senses and show common sense. Even then, it was in acute shortage there, so the situation did not improve," Ryabkov said.
The submission by Sweden and Finland of applications for membership in NATO, the already agreed admission of Finland to the alliance, the conclusion by this country of an agreement with the United States allowing the deployment of American military forces there - all this "significantly worsened the military-political situation in Europe", and the CFE Treaty through the fault of the West finally became a relic of the past, added the deputy minister.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed in 1990 and updated in 1999. The treaty was ratified only by Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
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