Russia announced Wednesday it would stop its participation in the Joint Consultative Group and in particular of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
The agreement was signed back in 1990 among the members of the 16 NATO state members and the six Warsaw Pact countries. The document outlined the limits to military forces in Europe, as a means to prevent another international war and included specifications on the number of soldiers, tanks, artillery pieces and other non-nuclear weapons.
Head of the Russian delegation to Vienna on arms control talks, Aleksandr Mazur was quoted as saying that the country will suspend …read more
Source: Novinite
