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105TH CONGRESS I
1st Session J
SENATE
EXEC. REPT.
105-1
FLANK DOCUMENT AGREEMENT TO THE CFE TREATY
MAY 9, 1997.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HELMS,
from the Committee on Foreign Relations,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany Treaty Doc. #105-5]
The Committee on Foreign Relations to which was referred the
Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on Con-
ventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 1990,
adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996 (The Flank Document)-the
Flank Document is Annex A of the Final Document of the First
CFE Review Conference, having considered the same, reports fa-
vorably thereon with 14 conditions and recommends that the Sen-
ate give its advice and consent to ratification thereof subject to the
14 conditions as set forth in this report and the accompanying reso-
lution of ratification.
CONTENTS
Page
I. O bject and P urpose ........................................................................................ 1
II. A rticle by A rticle A nalysis ........................................................................... 3
III. Background and Treaty Im plications ........................................................... 13
IV . C om m ittee A ction .......................................................................................... 19
V . Resolution of Ratification .............................................................................. 28
VI. Additional View s of Senator Biden ............................................................. 56
VII. Additional Views of Senator John F. Kerry ................................................. 58
I. OBJECT AND PURPOSE
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)
marked a watershed in European history, securing through a le-
gally-binding document a conventional military balance between
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Soviet-dominated War-
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