#HistoryOfDelegation #HistoryOfDiplomacy 🇷🇺 In the year of its 30th anniversary, the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Vienna negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control shares the most vivid chapters of the history of diplomacy in the field of military and political stability, as well as experience of diplomats who have made a significant contribution to defending our country's interests in this sphere. —— 🌐 Kulebyakin Vyacheslav (1945-2023) Head of the Delegation of the USSR/Russian Federation in the CFE Treaty Joint Consultative Group (1991-1996) 📎 In 1968, he graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Foreign Ministry, and in 1980, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Foreign Ministry. 📎 1968-1970 — served in the Armed Forces as a military interpreter 📎 Served as a diplomat in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1970. 📎 1986-1996 — Expert in the Office for Arms Limitation and Disarmament Affairs, Chief Advisor to the Department for Disarmament and Military Technology Control, to the Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs 📎 1987-1988 — participated in negotiations with the United States on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) and Strategic Offensive Arms (START) treaties 📎 1989-1990 — participated in the drafting of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty 📎 1991-1996 — first Head of the Delegation of the USSR/Russian Federation in the CFE Treaty Joint Consultative Group 📎 1998-2002 — Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, the Netherlands 📎 2002-2004 — state's secretary, Deputy Director General of the Russian Munitions Agency 📎 2004-2019 — Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of International Law at MGIMO —— 📃 The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty was signed in Paris on November 19, 1990. It entered into force on November 9, 1992. The Netherlands is the depositary. It was a fairly effective instrument for strengthening European security in the early 1990s. Its original signatories were six states that had signed the 1955 Warsaw Pact and sixteen states that had signed or acceded to the 1948 Brussels Treaty (Western European Union, WEU) or the 1949 Washington Treaty (NATO). The Treaty limits the numbers of five main categories of conventional weapons and equipment (battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery systems with a calibre of 100 mm and above, combat aircraft, and attack helicopters) of the armed forces of thirty States Parties in the area of application (the territory of Europe from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains). It provided for information exchange and extensive inspection activities. ⚖️ The adoption of the CFE Treaty drew a line under the era of inter-bloc confrontation. The Treaty established a reduced balance of forces between the Warsaw Pact Organisation and NATO and limited the two alliances' ability to deploy conventional weapons along their line of contact. It allowed for the rapid and balanced reduction of the large quantities of excess weapons and equipment inherited by the States Parties from the Cold War.