Poland’s Sejm has approved the suspension of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty), according to the results of a vote broadcast on the website of the lower house of parliament.
Of the 440 members of the Polish parliament, 435 supported the initiative to suspend the CFE Treaty, while the remaining five opposed it.
When asked by parliamentarians why Warsaw was only suspending the CFE Treaty and not withdrawing from it, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski said that the NATO allies did not agree to such actions.
The CFE Treaty was signed on 19 November 1990 in Paris by plenipotentiary representatives of sixteen NATO member states and six states parties to the CFE Treaty. The agreement entered into force on 9 November 1992.
We shall remind you that earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a news conference accused Poland of blocking the export of Ukrainian grain to the EU countries. According to him, this was a “political signal” to Kiev from Warsaw.