ARMY COMMANDER REACTS TO PROPOSED CHANGES IN CFE ARMS TREATY.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 125

Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief General Vladimir Semyonov yesterday welcomed the provisional agreement reached in Washington by Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and US Defense Secretary William Perry on changing the map for flank limitations established for) Russia by the CFE Treaty. Earlier, Grachev had announced that during the talks, (October 26 to 29) Perry backed Moscow’s initiative to consider the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories and the Volgograd region as a rear region, not as Russia’s flank, as defined