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Tomasz Siemoniak
Yesterday the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the cessation of participation in the joint meetings of the consultative group, starting from 11 March., it is to be declared by Russia complement in 2007. leave the CFE system.
– For now, this announcement; see what’s going to happen, but it certainly does not serve to build trust in Europe – Siemoniak told reporters. – In this announcement, I see first of all a very bad political signal, but whether it will translate to action – increasing the number of soldiers or equipment – we’ll see – he added.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, this decision does not return to normal relations between the European Union, NATO and Russia. Defence Minister stressed that “baggage problem is much bigger: it’s all what happened in Ukraine – the annexation of the Crimea, supporting separatist activities and direct participation in these activities.” – I think that NATO is a serious topic for analysis – he added.
Siemoniak pointed out that “One of the reasons 25 years the room was just this treaty,” so “if one of the parties has announced that it is withdrawing, it is difficult to be assessed differently than a negative.”
Editor of “New Military Technology” Andrzej Kinski believed that Russia’s announcement means that there will be no control mechanisms for notification of new weapons or troops are deployed.
– CFE system and its associated Vienna Document 1990 was the last chord of the Cold War, or the first standardization in the new political system , and specify the maximum proportion of weapons – tanks, aircraft and helicopter gunships – on both sides of the Iron Curtain to the Urals – Kinski said, noting that at that time there was still the Warsaw Pact.
Kinski stressed that the levels laid down in the Treaty “came out with contemporary standards and size,” larger than today, especially in the West. – In accordance with the provisions of this agreement, Poland may have 460 combat aircraft, and in fact we have a little over a hundred of them, or 1610 caliber artillery systems above 100 mm. About this we can forget, but when it comes to Russia, where he also real weapons ceilings are lower than those set out in the Treaty, but it gives it some freedom – he said.
pointed out that “when it comes to Russia, the ceilings have been changed in the early 90s, when the ruins of the Soviet Union, new state and of the allocation of weapons made mainly at the expense of the Russian Federation.”
Kinski pointed out that after the withdrawal from the CFE Russia cease to have effect on the reporting regimes forces from Siberia and the Far East to Europe, disappearing mechanisms that – despite the difficulties, as in the case of reconnaissance flights in the context of the Open Skies agreement allowed for some control.
He also pointed out that a few years ago the United States unilaterally declared the 1972 system. Reduction przeciwrakietowych systems, which gave Russia a free hand in relation to this category of weapons.
He added that, given notice CFE “in principle apply only treaties that govern strategic reinforcement.” Concluded between Russia and the US strategic agreements relate to the Land-based ballistic missiles and bombers and sea.
Yesterday the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Russia has decided to withdraw from the work of the joint consultative group for the CFE. Since that time, Russia is in a group to represent Belarus. At its meeting in Vienna of the Russian delegate said that the NATO countries’ actually bypassed the CFE provisions in the name of expanding the alliance, “so Russia in 2007. Suspended the membership of the treaty, however, continue participating in the meetings of the consultative group, hoping to develop a new control regime for conventional forces in Europe.
took the view that this does not happen, and continued participation in the meetings has become “meaningless from a political and practical point of view “and” was a source of unjustified expenses “- Russian delegate announced cease participation in the meetings. – In this way, declared by Russia in 2007, leaving the CFE system becomes full – said the representative of Russia.
also declared its readiness to work on a new regime of control “corresponding to the interests of both Russia and other European countries.”
CFE Treaty was signed in Paris in 1990. by NATO countries and the then state of the Warsaw Pact. The document defined the limits on key categories of conventional weapons from the Atlantic to the Urals.
(AF)
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