Lukashenka suspended the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has signed the law on suspension of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The document was published on 29 May on the Belarusian portal Pravo.by.

Suspend the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 19 November 1990," the document says.

The treaty was ratified by Belarus in 1992. The purpose of the treaty is to limit the number of conventional weapons and equipment in five categories:

• tanks;
• armoured combat vehicles
• artillery
• attack helicopters;
• combat aircraft.

The Treaty regulates mechanisms for verification of commitments and exchange of information with inspections.

TheTreaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed on 19 November 1990 in Paris by plenipotentiary representatives of sixteen NATO member states (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United States) and six Warsaw Pact Organisation member states (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the USSR) and entered into force on 9 November 1992.

Putin in 2007 signed a decree "On the suspension by the Russian Federation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and related international treaties".

Earlier Socialportal reported that Putin discussed with Lukashenko in Minsk the second phase of nuclear exercises of the Russian Federation with the participation of the Belarusian military.

It was also reported that Lukashenka visited the location of the Belarusian army near the border with Lithuania and in a conversation with a military officer asked whether they would be able to seize and hold the Suvalki corridor and " seize " part of Poland.