The State Duma supported the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

State Duma deputies supported Russia’s denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), informed Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

“Deputies of the State Duma, guided by the interests of our citizens, in order to ensure the security of the Russian Federation, decided to denounce the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

How clarifies press service of the State Duma, the bill was adopted unanimously. Along with the denunciation of the CFE Treaty, a number of related international treaties also cease to operate.

According to Volodin, the United States and the EU, by pushing NATO to the east, have destroyed the global security system. Now the West, pumping Ukraine with weapons, continues to destabilize the situation in the world and provokes a global catastrophe, he believes.

Russia suspended participation in the CFE Treaty back in 2007. Bill on the denunciation of the treaty by Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced for consideration by the State Duma on May 10. On the same day, the head of state appointed Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov as his representative during the consideration in parliament of the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from this treaty. Earlier today Ryabkov declared about the impossibility of returning to the CFE before the end of the “stormy period” in relations between Russia and the United States.

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe refers to the limitation of five categories of weapons and equipment: tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm, combat aircraft and attack helicopters. The document provides for the exchange of information and extensive inspection activities in the participating countries.

The treaty was signed by the USSR and European countries back in 1990, before the final collapse of the Warsaw Pact Organization (WTO), and took into account the balance of conventional weapons between the two blocs. After the collapse of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, the question arose of adapting the CFE Treaty in accordance with the new realities, which are especially relevant after NATO’s expansion to the east. By 1999, a version of the so-called adapted CFE Treaty was prepared, which raised the ceilings on the “flank restrictions” of conventional weapons for Russia. In 2007, Russia suspended participation in the treaty until “NATO countries begin to implement this document in good faith.”