ASTANA. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The conventional armed forces in Europe (CFE) treaty remains a basic tool of maintaining military stability but it needs to be adapted to contemporary realities, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said in a final document at the end of its Astana summit.
"Conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building regimes remain major instruments for ensuring military stability, predictability and transparency, and should be revitalized, updated and modernized," the Astana declaration said.
"We value the work of the Forum for Security Cooperation, and look forward to the updating of the Vienna Document 1999," the document said.
While the OSCE values the CFE contribution to the creation of a stable and predictable environment for its entire member states, "the CFE Treaty is not being implemented to its full capacity and the Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty (ACFE) has not entered into force," he said.
"Recognizing intensified efforts to overcome the current impasse, we express our support for the ongoing consultations aiming at opening the way for negotiations in 2011," the declaration said.
"At the same time, in today's complex and inter-connected world, we must achieve greater unity of purpose and action in facing emerging transnational threats, such as terrorism, organized crime, illegal migration, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber threats and the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons, drugs and human beings.
"Such threats can originate within or outside our region," the declaration said.