{"id":270050,"date":"2023-11-20T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=270050"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:53:13","slug":"nato-suspends-cfe-treaty-after-russias-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nato-suspends-cfe-treaty-after-russias-pullout\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Suspends CFE Treaty After Russia&#8217;s Pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>NATO announces formal suspension of Cold War-era security treaty after Russia&#8217;s pullout<\/strong>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>&#8221; on 7th November 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p>NATO has formally announced the suspension of <strong>Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE<\/strong>), a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia&#8217;s pullout from the deal.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.3333%;\"><strong>Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.6667%;\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.3333%;\"><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.6667%;\">The CFE treaty is an <strong>cold war era treaty<\/strong> that aimed to prevent massing of conventional armed forces by <strong>NATO<\/strong> and <strong>Warsaw Pact countries<\/strong> near mutual borders during the Cold War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.3333%;\"><strong>Signed on<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.6667%;\">It was <strong>s<\/strong><strong>igned in 1990 and fully ratified in 1992.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.3333%;\"><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.6667%;\">It placed limits on the deployment of conventional military forces in Europe and played a significant role in reducing tensions and arms build-up in the region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Why did Russia withdraw from the CFE Treaty?<\/h2>\n<p>1. <strong>Russia Ukraine conflict<\/strong>&#8211; Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which led to a significant military presence in Ukraine, influenced its decision to withdraw from the treaty.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Security Concern<\/strong>&#8211; Russia cited that preserving the CFE Treaty has become unacceptable from the standpoint of its<strong> fundamental security interests<\/strong>, citing developments in Ukraine and NATO&#8217;s recent expansion in the region (Finland joined in 2023).<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Limited significance of CFE<\/strong>&#8211; Russia claimed it has a limited significance as it only restricts conventional arms and not advanced weapons.<\/p>\n<h2>What is NATO?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nato-historical-context-and-its-role-in-ukraine-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What is Warsaw Pact?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.5758%;\"><strong>Aspect\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.4242%;\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.5758%;\"><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.4242%;\">The Warsaw Pact, formally<strong> known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance<\/strong>,\u00a0 was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.5758%;\"><strong>Signed on\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.4242%;\"><strong>14 May, 1955<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.5758%;\"><strong>Countries involved<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.4242%;\">The Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and the German Democratic Republic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27.5758%;\"><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 72.4242%;\">The<strong> Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the NATO.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are other cold war era NATO and USSR treaties?<\/h2>\n<p>1. The North Atlantic Treaty (1949)<br \/>\n2. The Four Power Agreement on Berlin (1971)<br \/>\n3. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)<br \/>\n4. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) and START Treaties (First in 1972)<br \/>\n5. The Helsinki Accords (1975)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus- International Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; This post is based on the article &#8220;NATO announces formal suspension of Cold War-era security treaty after Russia&#8217;s pullout&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 7th November 2023. Why in the News? NATO has formally announced the suspension of Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a key Cold War-era security treaty in response&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nato-suspends-cfe-treaty-after-russias-pullout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NATO Suspends CFE Treaty After Russia&#8217;s Pullout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1236],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-270050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700499236},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}