Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty

• Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty

The United States, the Soviet Union, and twenty other member countries of the NORTH...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• Can This Treaty Be Saved? Breaking the Stalemate On Conventional Forces in Europe

[...] the Russian government no longer provides information on its treaty-limited equipment and refrains from accepting or participating in inspections. [...] one has to ask what key political problem arms control, among other means, can address.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 7, September 2009

• Russia's New October

One man with one gun can control 100 without one," V.I. Lenin once said. The man who gave birth to Soviet Russia believed that strength is first and foremost a means of control, not of war. Exactly 90 years after the October Revolution - which actually occurred on Nov. 7, 1917 - Russia's strategy echoes Lenin's advice. Right now, world attention is focused on Russia's stunning parliamentary election. Last month, however, other major news came from Russia. After several months of tension and negotiations, on Nov. 7 Russian President Vladimir Putin decided his country would withdraw Dec. 12 from the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, seen as a cornerstone of Europe's defense. That move is a protest against a missile shield NATO plans to establish in Eastern Europe to defend against ro...

• The Washington Times
• December 06, 2007

• Salvaging the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty Regime: Options for Washington

Recognizing the impasse between NATO and Russia over this question, the authors outline four options for Washington: continue the current pursuit of parallel actions by NATO and Russia and move toward the Adapted CFE Treaty, which replaces bloc-based with national-based troop limits, rights, and obligations; continue the current pursuit but allow amendment of the Adapted CFE Treaty; initiate provisional application by NATO of the Adapted CFE Treaty; or decline implementation of the CFE Treaty and manage a "soft landing" for the end of the CFE regime. -

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 4, May 2010

• Russia: In Transition or Intransigent?

The U.S. and Russia Counterterrorism Working Group last met in September 2006, and will meet again in a few months, to continue and deepen cooperation on intelligence, law enforcement, weapons of mass destruction (WMD), terrorist financing, counternarcotics, Afghanistan, United Nations (U.N.) issues, military assistance program address directory (MANPADs), and transportation security. In that speech, President Putin suggested he would consider suspending Russia's implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) if no progress was made on ratification of the Adapted CFE Treaty by NATO Allies.\n * First, it pledged to reduce its forces in the CFE flank area to the level specified by the Adapted Treaty, and has done so. * Second, there has been important pr...

• DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 4, December 2007

• U.S., Russia Swap Arms Ideas

Differences include competing U.S. and Russian ideas for a successor arrangement to the expiring 1991 START nuclear reductions accord, Russian opposition to U.S. missile defense plans, and quarrels over a treaty restricting the amount and location of major conventional weapons, such as battle tanks, stationed in Europe. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty The disagreement over missile defense garnered most of their attention, but U.S. and Russian officials also touched on the 1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and START I. The two sides announced no progress on either issue, despite some reported recent U.S. initiatives regarding the conventional arms pact.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 9, November 2007

• Russia's Duma Oks Suspending Arms Treaty

MOSCOW -- Russia's lower house of parliament voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, approving President Vladimir Putin's initiative in a show of defiance to the West. In a 418-0 vote, the State Duma approved legislation calling for Moscow to temporarily abandon its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty -- a pact straining Russia's relations with the United States and Europe.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 08, 2007

• Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty

A convoy of Russian armed forces departed Georgia in July as Moscow started a military pullout, which is to be completed by the end of 2008. The Kreml...

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 7, September 2005

• Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty

On March 31, Georgia and Russia signed an agreement committing the Kremlin to close its last two Soviet-era military bases in Georgia by the end of 20...

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 4, May 2006

• Bush Sends Russia Nuclear Energy Pact to Hill

The agreement comes at a time of deep tensions between the United States and Russia over other issues, including U.S. plans for the construction of a missile defense system in Europe, Russia's decision to stop abiding by the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, differences over Kosovo, and the interest of the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine in joining NATO. (see ACT, May 2008.) For one, lawmakers have often sounded alarm bells over U.S. interactions with Russian nuclear researchers that they view as inappropriate.\n Aside from the Markey legislation and the House-passed bill, critics have discussed other options for legislation, including attaching conditions to the measure or restricting money to implement it.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 5, June 2008