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Truth Be Known Nation :: View topic - Russian parliament votes to suspend arms treaty
Why did Russian parliament vote to suspend arms treaty?
This is simply because the NATO countries refuse to ratify the Treaty which they signed back in 1990.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to suspend a key arms treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, saying the United States and NATO were using the pact to undermine Russia's defenses.
Ignoring appeals from the United States, the Duma (lower house of parliament) approved 418-0 a law allowing Moscow to stop complying with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, seen by the West as a cornerstone of European security.
The suspension, ordered by President Vladimir Putin as part of a wave of increasingly aggressive moves against the West ahead of elections, will take effect on December 12.
Russia's top general Yuri Baluyevsky said the CFE treaty, which limits the number of heavy conventional weapons deployed and stored between the Atlantic and Russia's Ural mountains, unfairly penalized Moscow.
"The current treaty fully suits the United States and NATO," Baluyevsky, the chief of general staff, told parliament.
"The treaty allows, practically without any limits, the realization of the strategy for NATO to move eastwards, carrying out the reconfiguration of the U.S.'s military presence in Europe and for constant monitoring of the composition and state of Russia's military in the European zone."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0753243020071107
NATO hopes CFE treaty will remain in force
07/ 11/ 2007
BRUSSELS, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - NATO hopes the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty will remain in force and an adapted treaty ratified, the bloc's spokesman said on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Russia's lower house of parliament unanimously voted in favor of President Vladimir Putin's bill to impose a moratorium on the arms reduction treaty.
The moratorium on the arms reduction pact will take effect on December 12, after final approval by the upper house of parliament, which is expected to vote on the issue on November 16.
James Appathurai told a news conference in Brussels that NATO member-countries favored ratification of an adapted CFE treaty as soon as possible, providing Russia honors its Istanbul commitments.
He stressed that all NATO nations had met their commitments under the CFE Treaty.
According to NATO official data, since the CFE Treaty entered into force in 1992, the destruction of over 60,000 pieces of treaty-limited equipment (tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, attack helicopters and combat aircraft) has been verified and over 3,500 on-site inspections have been conducted.
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20071107/87022270.html
It seems like Europe didn't learn a thing from Napoleon's and Hitler's mistakes...
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Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty
Introduction
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (or CFE Treaty), signed in Paris on November 19, 1990, by the 22 members of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact, is a landmark arms control agreement that established parity in major conventional forces/armaments between East and West from the Atlantic to the Urals.
It provides an unprecedented basis for lasting European security and stability.
The original CFE Treaty (which is of unlimited duration) entered into force in 1992.
Following the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the enlargement of NATO in the 1990s, the then 30 CFE States Parties signed the Adaptation Agreement at the Istanbul OSCE Summit on 19 November 1999, to amend the CFE Treaty to take account of the evolving European geo-strategic environment.
Area of Application and Treaty Membership
The CFE Treaty covers the entire land territory of the States Parties in Europe from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains (ATTU).
It thus excludes much of the territory of Russia and all the territory of the U.S.
And Canada - all signatories of the original and Adapted Treaty.
The conventional forces of all three countries that are stationed in Europe are subject to CFE limits.
The 30 CFE States Parties are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States.
Major Treaty Provisions
The original CFE Treaty set equal limits for East and West in the ATTU on key conventional armaments essential for conducting surprise attacks or initiating large-scale offensive operations.
Those armaments/equipment include: battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, and artillery pieces, as well as combat aircraft (except for naval air) and attack helicopters.
In addition to limitations on the number of armaments in each category, the Treaty also provides for central zonal limits to prevent destabilizing force concentrations in Europe and for regional ("flank") limits, which were modified by the Flank Agreement of May 1996.
Whereas the original CFE Treaty established an East-West group structure for limiting NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional armaments, the Adapted Treaty provides for a system of national and territorial ceilings (the former limits the number of armaments each state may possess, while the latter limits the total number of Treaty-limited equipment present within a State Party's borders);
An accession mechanism for new States Parties;
Enhanced verification and transparency regimes;
And honoring current Treaty commitments pending entry into force of the Adapted Treaty.
The Adapted Treaty will facilitate NATO enlargement and reinforce the territorial sovereignty of individual States Parties.
Achievements and Implementation of the Original CFE Treaty
The principal accomplishment of the CFE Treaty has been the large-scale reduction or destruction of conventional military equipment in the ATTU during the first 5 years the Treaty was in effect.
By the end of the Treaty's reduction period in 1995, when equipment limits took effect, the 30 States Parties completed and verified by inspection the destruction or conversion of over 52,000 battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery pieces, combat aircraft and attack helicopters.
In addition, they have conducted/accepted over 4000 intrusive on-site inspections of military units/installations, and of specified areas.
Ratification Prospects for the Adapted CFE Treaty
Ratification by NATO Allies of the Adapted Treaty is awaiting Russia's compliance with adapted CFE flank provisions and continued fulfillment of its Istanbul summit commitments regarding withdrawals of Russian forces from Georgia and Moldova.
The Adapted Treaty will enter into force 10 days after instruments of ratification have been deposited by all States Parties.
LINK TO THE US STATE DEPARTMENT SITE -
(http://www.state.gov/t/ac/rls/fs/11243.htm)
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Update on the situation...
06/ 12/ 2007
Russia refuses to share info under CFE after Dec.
12 moratorium
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will not share information with NATO under the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty after its unilateral moratorium comes into effect on December 12, a senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday.
Moscow considers the original CFE treaty, signed in December 1990 by 16 NATO countries and six Warsaw Pact members, to be discriminatory and outdated since it does not reflect the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the breakup of the Soviet Union, or recent NATO expansion.
"At present, Russia must share information specified by the provisions of the original CFE treaty.
We will not provide this information, although we are supposed to on December 15," Anatoly Antonov, head of the department on security and disarmament at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told a Moscow-Berlin video conference at RIA Novosti.
Russia's law suspending its participation in the CFE Treaty officially came into force on December 3.
The moratorium itself will take effect at the stroke of midnight on December 12-13.
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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071206/91224956.html
MOSCOW (Reuters) -
"The current treaty fully suits the United States and NATO," Baluyevsky, the chief of general staff, told parliament.
"The treaty allows, practically without any limits, the realization of the strategy for NATO to move eastwards, carrying out the reconfiguration of the U.S.'s military presence in Europe and for constant monitoring of the composition and state of Russia's military in the European zone."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0753243020071107
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This is what CNN, CBS, ABC, FoxNews, BBC and all official Western media don't want to report....
But the situation is getting very tense....
The suspension, ordered by President Vladimir Putin as part of a wave of increasingly aggressive moves against the West ahead of elections, will take effect on December 12.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0753243020071107
Which is today....
12/ 12/ 2007
NATO calls on Moscow to reverse CFE treaty decision
BRUSSELS, December 12 (RIA Novosti) - NATO said in a statement on Wednesday that it regretted Russia's decision to impose a moratorium on a major arms reductions treaty in Europe and urged Moscow to reverse its decision.
The law to freeze Russia's participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty was unanimously approved by parliament and signed on November 30 by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's unilateral moratorium came into force immediately after midnight on Wednesday.
Moscow considers the original CFE treaty, signed in December 1990 by 16 NATO countries and six Warsaw Pact members, to be discriminatory and outdated since it does not reflect the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the breakup of the Soviet Union, or recent NATO expansion.
In a statement made on Wednesday, NATO countries said they "deeply regret" the decision, adding they "continue to place the highest value on the CFE Treaty regime with all its elements and underscore its strategic importance as a cornerstone of Euro-Atlantic security."
The statement said: "The Russian Federation's 'suspension' is a unilateral measure not provided for under the terms of the CFE Treaty.
This step does not contribute to the long-term viability of the CFE Treaty and we urge the Russian Federation to rescind its decision."
NATO "strongly urged" Russia "not to take further steps that would undermine the future of the CFE regime."
General of the Army Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian General Staff, earlier said that the current treaty favored the U.S.
And NATO because it allowed them to exceed national and territorial limitations on the number of armaments, freely deploy and re-deploy military contingents anywhere in Europe, and monitor Russian troops in the European part of Russia.
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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071212/92140204.html
Russia's Su-37 Terminator
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GDXm9bt0s1Y
Su-37 extreme maneuvrability demo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1GdfnTLKcvM
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