2023-05-29 16:41:11
Signed at the end of the Cold War, this treaty aimed to limit the level of heavy armament that might be deployed by its signatories on the European continent. It aimed, in particular, the deployment of combat tanks, infantry vehicles, heavy artillery as well as combat planes and helicopters.
Moscow, like 33 other states that make up NATO and the Warsaw Pact, signed the agreement in 1990 before suspending its participation in 2007 due to NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe. Since 2015 and the annexation of the Crimean peninsula, Moscow no longer took part in the meetings of the consultative group linked to the treaty.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has definitively ruled out any possibility of Russia’s return to the treaty, as Moscow has asked its defense industry to increase production.
“By withdrawing from the CFE Treaty, Russia removes from its agenda a document that no longer reflects reality, but it does not put an end to the dialogue concerning the control of conventional arms”, declared a member of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament.
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