Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation: Russia has a legal right to declare a unilateral moratorium on DOVS

Russia considers NATO statements that Moscow does not have a legal right to a unilateral announcement of the moratorium on the contract on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS).

“Trying to question the legitimacy of the suspension of the action of Dovse, NATO representatives demonstrate the unwillingness to use the“ window of opportunities ”to continue the dialogue, which remains open in case of suspension,” Anatoly Antonov, director of the Department of Security and Disarmamum of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interfax interfax.

The Russian diplomat answered the agency’s questions on the eve of the Extraordinary Conference on the situation around the DOVSA, which is scheduled for June 12-15 in Vienna.

According to him, Dovs provides for a wide range of means of protecting the interests of each of its participants - from raising questions in a specially created body (joint advisory group) to the convening of an emergency conference and leaving the contract.

“At the same time, we are guided by the principle of international law, which reads:“ If more is permitted, then less is allowed. ”In this case,“ more ”is a way out of the contract, and“ less ”is the imprisonment of its action,” Antonov noted.