Withdrawal of Russian Troops in the Context of CFE Adapted Treaty: Perceptions, Interests, and the Changing Nature of European Security
Withdrawal of Russian Troops in the Context of CFE Adapted Treaty: Perceptions, Interests, and the Changing Nature of European Security

Summary/Abstract: "It is not difficult to notice that Russians manipulate the issue of CFE adapted Treaty. Moscow knows very well that host-State consent was a fundamental principle during negations and that was dully reflected in the adapted Treaty. Moscow knows, as well, that the Final Act political commitments are included in the package with the adapted Treaty and have a value undoubtedly superior to any other OSCE decision, that from legal point of view no decision can change the substance and terms of the Istanbul CFE Conference but another CFE Conference and that, in the end, NATO's limits of tolerance cannot be tested indefinitely by political-diplomatic challenges as those mentioned above."

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