MOSCOW. May 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov his official representative to the hearing of Russia's denouncement of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
The respective document was published on the official website of legal information on Wednesday.
The president ordered that the matter be addressed by both chambers of the Russian parliament.
Russia has suspended implementation of the CFE Treaty for now.
Putin signed an order "On Suspending Applicability of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and Related International Agreements in the Russian Federation" on July 13, 2007, and a respective bill was adopted on November 29, 2007.
Russia said on March 10, 2015, it would suspend participation in meetings of the Treaty's Joint Consultative Group. Yet it formally remained a party to the Treaty.
A bill denouncing the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe by Russia has not been registered in the State Duma's database yet.
The CFE Treaty was signed in Paris on November 19, 1990, by representatives of 16 NATO member states (Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United States, Turkey and France) and six Warsaw Pact member states (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Czechoslovakia). It took effect on November 9, 1992.