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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    July 5, 2004 Monday

    FC international committee calls for ratification of adapted CFE

    By Lyudmila Yermakova

    MOSCOW

    Committee on International Affairs at the Federation Council, the
    upper house of parliament, has supported the ratification of the
    Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE) and decided to recommend
    the house members to ratify the document at a plenary session on July
    7.

    "The treaty is one of basic elements forming the patterns of European
    security and stability," the committee's chairman, Mikhail Margelov
    said.

    "The ratification will enable Russia to keep its military forces in
    Ukraine and Armenia," he said. "The treaty also envisages the
    building up of confidence between Russia and NATO and precludes the
    covert formation of large-scale forces in Europe."

    Considering the fact that only Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have
    ratified the adapted treaty, the committee members decided to prepare
    a letter of address to other 27 signatories urging them to do
    likewise.

    On Tuesday, July 6, the letter of address will be submitted to the
    council of the upper house and on Wednesday, July 7, to the all the
    house members for affirmation.

    Members of the Committee also called on the Federation Council and
    the State Duma, the lower house, "to take steps to consolidating
    Russia's positions in different international organizations,
    including in the Council of Europe (CE) and NATO, so as to press for
    ratification of the treaty."
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