This week, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it will no longer attend the meetings of the Joint Consultative Group (JCG) of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty of 1990. The Russian arms control representative in Vienna, Alexander Mazur, told reporters: “The withdrawal from CFE announced by Russia in 2007 is now complete.” After abandoning CFE, Russian representatives continued to attend JCG meetings as a gesture of good will, in the hope this forum may become a framework to negotiate a new arms control regime to replace CFE, but “NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] nations made this impossible.” …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation