Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Putin appoints Russian Deputy Foreign Minister to assist in deliberating the abolition of the Treaty on conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Russian President Putin signed an order on 10 May appointing Deputy Foreign Minister Riabkov as his delegate. responsible for assisting parliament in deliberating Russia's abolition of the Treaty on conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The Treaty on conventional Armed Forces in Europe is a treaty jointly drawn up by two major military groups, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, at the end of the Cold War, which aims to reduce the conventional armed forces of both sides in Europe. The treaty was signed by the heads of state of 22 countries of NATO and Warsaw Pact in Paris in 1990 and entered into force in 1992.