Posted on 11/07/2007 11:57:57 AM PST by Samba
Edited on 11/07/2007 12:34:48 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Russia's parliament has voted to suspend Moscow's support for a key treaty limiting the deployment of armed forces along its border with Europe.
Russia's parliament has voted to suspend Moscow's support for a key treaty limiting the deployment of armed forces along its border with Europe.
Parliament's lower house, the Duma, unanimously agreed to temporarily abandon the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE).
The bill still faces approval in the upper house in December before President Vladimir Putin can sign it.
The CFE is one of many issues recently putting Moscow at odds with the West.
The Duma approved the bill in the 418-0 vote.
In the motion, MPs said the CFE treaty "no longer responds to the security interests of the Russian Federation" in light of Nato expansion and other factors in Europe.
The vote amounted to legislative confirmation of a decree signed by President Putin in July.
The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.
It set strict limits on the number of conventional weapons - battle tanks, combat aircraft, heavy artillery - that the members of the Warsaw Pact and Nato could deploy in European territory stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Urals.
In the wake of the collapse of communism, the treaty was revised in 1999, in part to address Russian concerns.
Russia ratified the 1999 revised version, but Nato has not done so.
Nato states are first demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia and Moldova, but Moscow says the issues are not linked.
The Kremlin has also voiced concern over US plans to station part of a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The usual.
Successful missile defense tests last night most likely triggered this. If you read the article all the way through, the last line says, “The Kremlin has also voiced concern over US plans to station part of a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.”
‘What is Putin up to?’
He’s pretending its 1979.
Hope Europe is ready because I do not think we are coming this time.
The only positive is that the Russians won’t play patty cake with the Islamists the way the Western Europeans have.
Give the UN Security Council a call I'm sure the Chairman from Syria is anxiously awaiting your call!!!!!
Full agreement. Let Europe defend Europe for six decades, then give us a call.
The Cold War is over, and many in Europe want this to say such, even as agents are dying, media is censored, firms are nationalized, their courts resemble kangaroo courts, Putin assumes near totalitarian power, bombers probe European air defense systems, people are executed by the KGB in London and elsewhere, new surface to surface nukes are developed and deployed...........
We can see in Georgia, the Ukraine, Russian actions reference Iran and Israel, their backing of dictators like in Belarus that their intentions are of the highest moral calling and 100% in line with our strategic goals. Let’s pretend all is OK.
All show. If they were going to suspend the treaty, they would just do it, not announce it. Probably already did long ago.
The Russians will let the Islamists overrun Western Europe in exchange for leaving Russia and its allies alone.
He’s pretending its 1968............and The Czech Republic needs to be rescued................
considering that we have moved nato further and further East into former Warsaw Pact and even former USSR areas, why would we expect them to do otherwise?
Europe needs our help for crying out-loud.
Let Harry Reid ( Exalted leader of al-Qaeda in USA ), surrender for them, and this problem can be over before tea time.
We are still paying off Russia to take their old nuke uranium etc off their hands and use it in our nuke reactors. Do we stop? No. We must continue to pay to remove this stuff because we know some general might just sell it. So now they do not have to worry about it, and can proceed to put the money we are giving them into new arms. Quite the pretzel.
Well I guess there is no good side then...
Like selling a Hitler want-a-be Islamo-facist nut case a nuclear plant, and then providing diplomatic protection to the same in the Security Council?
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