“Russia denounces CFE Treaty: Putin signs law withdrawing from conventional arms agreement”

2023-05-29 09:05:00

Photo: Mikhail Klimentiev / TASS

Moscow. May 29. INTERFAX.RU – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

The relevant information was posted on Monday at official portal of legal information.

The treaty was signed in Paris on 19 November 1990 and entered into force on 9 November 1992.

As noted in the accompanying materials to the law on denunciation, the provisions of the CFE Treaty establish obligations for its member states on quantitative restrictions on five categories of conventional armed forces: battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft and combat helicopters.

The Russian Federation ratified the CFE Treaty in July 1992. In 2004, the Russian Federation ratified the Agreement on the Adaptation of the CFE Treaty of November 19, 1999 (did not enter into force). In 2007, the CFE Treaty was suspended for the Russian Federation by presidential decree of July 13, 2007, federal law of November 29, 2007 No. 276-FZ.

“According to Article XIX of the CFE Treaty, each state party, in the exercise of its national sovereignty, has the right to withdraw from it if it decides that exceptional circumstances have endangered its supreme interests,” the materials say. As Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier, it will take about six months to complete the process of Russia’s withdrawal from the CFE Treaty.



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