Russia formally withdrew on Tuesday from a key post-Cold War security treaty designed to de-escalate potential East-West conflicts, in a latest sign of rising tensions between Russia and NATO.
Deputy head of Russia's Security Council and chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev visits the Raduga State Machine Building Construction Bureau named after A. Bereznyak in Dubna, Moscow region, Russia February 2, 2023. Sputnik/Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoNov 7 -
"At 00:00 on November 7, 2023, the procedure of Russia's withdrawal from the CFE , was completed," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement on its website. "Thus, the international legal document, the validity of which was suspended by our country back in 2007, has finally become history for us."
The 1990 treaty, negotiated and concluded at the end of the Cold War and signed a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, placed limits on the deployment of military equipment to maintain military balance between NATO and the then-Warsaw Pact countries.
"The CFE Treaty was concluded at the end of the Cold War, when the formation of a new architecture of global and European security based on cooperation seemed possible, and appropriate attempts were made," the Russian foreign ministry said. The actions of the United States to expand NATO led to alliance countries "openly circumventing" the group restrictions, however, the ministry added. "Thus, the CFE Treaty in its original form lost touch with reality."Two of five Indian states due to elect new legislatures this month began voting on Tuesday, a big test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's chances of winning a third term in a national election due by May.
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