The Russian Foreign Ministry named a condition for resuming dialogue on the CFE Treaty

A conversation about restoring the conventional arms control system is possible only after the effective completion of the special military operation in Ukraine. This was stated on November 19 by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov in an interview published on the website of the PIR Center.

"As for conventional arms control and its future, I think anything is possible, but in the very long term. First, a phase must be completed related to the effective completion of its tasks, which were set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022," Ryabkov said.

He expressed the hope that after achieving the results of the special operation, there will be those who will advocate the restoration of the conventional arms control system.

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) was signed in Paris in 1990 by 22 countries, including six Warsaw Pact states (USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia), as well as 16 NATO members.

The updated version of the treaty was presented at the OSCE summit in Istanbul in 1999. It has been ratified only by Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2007, Moscow announced a moratorium on participation in the CFE Treaty until NATO countries begin to implement it in good faith.

In April last year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the CFE Treaty had lost its viability amid the changed geopolitical situation. In his opinion, the change in the situation is caused by the degradation of the security system in Europe. He noted that the issue requires a joint dialogue to develop new regimes and a common worldview in the field of strategic stability.

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