CHISINAU, April 12. /TASS/. Moldova’s parliament has passed the final reading of a bill suspending the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) at a hearing broadcast on the legislature's YouTube channel.

"The Republic of Moldova hereby suspends the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed in Paris on November 19, 1990, but retains the opportunity to return to its implementation in the future," the document reads.

The bill was passed by the votes of 53 members of the Party of Action and Solidarity. It also points out that the decision is based on the fact that the situation has radically changed since the treaty was signed.

The document now needs to be approved by the country’s president. It will come into effect 150 days after the depositary of the treaty and other states parties receive the relevant notification.

The treaty was signed in 1990 and adapted in 1997. However, NATO countries did not ratify the adapted version of the CFE and continued to adhere to the 1990 provisions based on the conventional arms balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. On May 29, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law denouncing the CFE Treaty, which came into force on June 9. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the United States and other NATO allies are the ones to blame for the termination of the treaty.