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Russia Won’t Stop at CFE Moratorium
The suspension of Russia’s participation in the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) is probably only the first step en route to revising international agreements, said State Duma First Vice Speaker Lyubov Sliska.
“I think we have done the right thing, we should have done it long ago. I think it is the first step to revising the agreements with which Russia disagrees or which act to its detriment,” Sliska told reporters Friday, reminding that only Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus ratified the Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty.
Sliska said the Istanbul commitments in part of withdrawing Russia’s troops from Georgia and Moldova were of recommending nature to Russia. “It wasn’t the ultimatum. We pulled bases out of Georgia. As to Transdniestria, it is the farfetched reason that is currently used to accuse us.”
The moratorium on CFE Treaty “isn’t irreversible,” pointed out Konstantin Kosachev, who chairs the State Duma’s Committee for Foreign Affairs. Russia will resume participation once the national parliaments of the member states ratify the document, Kosachev said.
According to Kasachev, the statements of the U.S. envoys, whereby Russia should meet the requirements of Istanbul agreements are “ungrounded and don’t directly relate to the treaty’s execution.”
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