Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

The original Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was negotiated and concluded during the last years of the Cold War and established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe (from the Atlantic to the Urals) and mandated the destruction of excess weaponry. The treaty proposed equal limits for the two ""groups of states-parties"", the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact. On 10 March 2015, Russia, citing NATO's de facto breach of the Treaty, formally announced it was ""completely"" halting its participation in it as of the next day.