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Valery Revenko, head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Belarusian Defence Ministry, complained that Minsk had received neither a notice about the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War nor an invitation to attend.

NATO's suspension of the pact and Russia's earlier withdrawal compounds the OSCE's crisis, as conventional arms control in Europe collapses.

Russia snubs NATO and the West again (and again).

Airbase and military facility visits and demonstrations of new major weapons systems were held in Hungary between 10 and 11 October.

Signed in 1990, the Treaty led to an unprecedented conventional disarmament process in Europe by destroying more than 72,000 pieces of military equipment. It

The OSCE is uniquely positioned to help broker a new security architecture because of its wide membership, argues U.S. representative Michael Carpenter.

Comprehensive drills of the Belarusian armed forces will take place in late September, following a joint military exercise of countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the chief for international military cooperation at the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Valery Revenko assured that Belarus "strictly fulfills its obligations under the Vienna Document 2011"

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