The Vienna conference on the CFE treaty failed to produce tangible results, which makes the possibility of Russia withdrawing from the treaty more likely.
The conference was convened in Vienna at Russia's request soon after a statement President Vladimir Putin made in his annual Address to the Federal Assembly on April 26. In this speech Putin expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that Russia fulfils its obligations under the treaty - signed in 1990 and updated in 1999 - unilaterally. Russia ratified the treaty in 2004, which limits the amounts of troops and conventional weapons that it can keep on various parts of its territory, in 2004. Some NATO countries, such as the Baltic States and Slovakia, are not even signatories of the treaty; the others have promised to ratify it when Russia finalizes the pullout of its troops from Georgia and Moldova.
