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CFE Treaty Fails to Meet Stability Requirments, CSTO Says
Today’s situation with the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) fails to meet purposes of stability, the members of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) declared in the statement timed to the Extraordinary Conference of the states-parties to the CFE Treaty, ITAR-TASS reported.
The impact of CFE Treaty of 1990 had been substantial and positive at the stage of transferring from standoff of the blocks to new relations in Europe, CSTO specified in the statement.
In 1999, however, the states-parties to the CFE Treaty signed the agreement on its adjustment that would allow to maintain stability and security in time of continuing transformation of military and political environment in Europe. But that agreement hasn’t taken effect, stripping the CFE Treaty of all efficiency and questioning its mere existence.
Exactly the states that are the CSTO members, “namely Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have officially ratified the document,” CSTO said emphasizing the unity of its participants.
Russia will be no longer meeting provisions of the outdated Treaty at any cost and to the detriment of its own security, Anatoly Antonov from Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced in Vienna a day before, when addressing the states-parties to the CFE Treaty during the opening of their Extraordinary Conference.
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