MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A crisis situation has unfolded in relations between Russia and European countries, as there is a failure to create a single security space in the Euro-Atlantic, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.
"A crisis situation has unfolded in relations between Russia and Europe. A single peace, security and stability space in the Euro-Atlantic still has not been created," the minister said at an international security conference in Moscow.
He added that support for the European Security Treaty, put forward by the Russian Federation, has been supplanted by the imposition of an “obsolete scheme,” the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
In March, Russia suspended its participation in the CFE treaty after the country's Foreign Ministry said that NATO countries "prefer to bypass the provisions" of the treaty by expanding the alliance.
