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Article: Will NATO and Russia once again count tanks and aircraft in Europe?
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Byline: Alexander Khramchikhin
MOSCOW _ The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) established equal quotas for NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the number of tanks, artillery (weapons with a caliber more than 100mm), armored combat vehicles, aircraft and attack helicopters.
Now almost all Warsaw Pact countries, and some republics of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia (which was never part of the Warsaw Pact) have joined NATO, thereby invalidating the treaty geopolitically.
A modified version of the CFE treaty established national quotas instead of bloc limits. It was signed in 1999 but has not been ratified by a ...