MINSK. June 21 (Interfax) - Belarus is ready to resume implementing the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik said on Friday.
"Minsk is ready to resume implementing the CFE Treaty, but has no illusions about NATO's readiness to act likewise," the state-run television channel ONT quoted Aleinik.
The suspended implementation of the CFE Treaty by NATO member states "unties their hands for beefing up unprecedented military potential," he said.
"In that situation, Belarus could not help but mirror their actions," Aleinik said.
As reported, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a bill suspending the CFE Treaty's implementation into law on May 29, 2024.
Czechia announced the suspension of its CFE Treaty obligations to Belarus in August 2022. Poland made a similar decision in March 2023, Belarus responded by adopting the law On Suspending the Application of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe to the Republic of Poland and the Czech Republic in October 2023.
The North Atlantic Council said in November 2023 that NATO member states planned to suspend the CFE Treaty. Russia quit the treaty as well.
The CFE Treaty was ratified by Belarus and took effect in 1992.