For security and defense reasons, Poland has suspended the CSCE Treaty for an indefinite period.

"As indicated in the justification of the bill, in the conditions of aggressive actions of the Russian Federation aimed at destabilizing peace and security in Europe, first of all full-scale aggression against Ukraine, as well as in connection with Russia's denunciation of the Treaty, which entered into force on November 7, 2023, on the same day, a declaration was unanimously adopted on the intention of NATO member states to suspend the Treaty.

Therefore, the application of the Treaty is necessary for reasons of security and defense, as well as the interests of Poland's foreign policy. The suspension of the Agreement will mean that Poland, like other states that decide to do so, formally remaining a party to this agreement, will not be obliged to comply with its provisions," the Office of the Polish President said in a statement.

  • DZUSE was signed on November 19, 1990 in Paris.

  • The original signatory countries included 16 NATO countries (Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Greece, Denmark, the USA, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Turkey and France) and 6 members of the Warsaw Pact (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and Czechoslovakia) — the maximum levels of weapons and equipment were determined for each bloc.

  • However, the collapse of the USSR came, the Czechoslovakia was divided into two countries, Germany was united, and the Warsaw Pact Organization was dissolved. As a result, 30 states have already become members of the DZUSE. A few years later, some of the former members of the Warsaw Pact joined NATO.

  • After the Istanbul adaptation of the agreements in 1999, the participants introduced a limit on the placement of military equipment of other countries on the territory of sovereign states.

  • In 2007, the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin, suspended the activities of the CSCE, in 2015, Russia stopped participating in the meetings of the joint advisory group, and on May 29, 2023, it finally denounced the Treaty.

  • Last year in September, there was a message that Belarus wants to terminate the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) regarding Poland and the Czech Republic. On August 31, Alexander Lukashenko said that in April Poland informed about the decision not to comply with the Convention on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe in relation to Belarus. Although this treaty is supposedly the last international act in the field of arms control, which legally obliges the country to adhere to it.

  • In October 2023, Belarus suspended the agreement between the two states of Poland and the Czech Republic.