NATO invasion of Russia - what are the hamsters silent about?
Recently, there have been many rumors on the Internet that Putin allowed the invasion of NATO troops into Russia during popular unrest and man-made disasters. At the same time, the Federal Law 99-FZ of 7 June 2007 g “On ratification of the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other states participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces 19 June 1995 g of the Additional Protocol to him. " People who do not know the real facts, can believe in all this nonsense. Let's try to figure out where the truth is, and where the fiction is, using official documents. Immediately make some important reservations:
- all documents that were used in this article are taken from media sites and are in common access;
- I will not quote fully the "Agreement between the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty on the status of their Forces" from 19 June 1951 g due to the large size of this document, limiting it to individual quotes without breaking context;
- links to documents will be given at the end of the article.
So, let me start from the very beginning, namely, what is the Partnership for Peace program? According to the NATO website:
Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a program of practical bilateral cooperation between individual Euro-Atlantic partner countries and NATO countries. This allows partners to build individual relations with NATO, based on the choice of their own priorities for cooperation.
Based on the commitment to democratic principles that underlie the alliance itself, the Partnership for Peace program aims to increase stability, reduce threats to peace and build strong security relationships between individual Euro-Atlantic partners and NATO, as well as between partner countries .
PfP activities affect almost all areas of NATO activities, including defense, military reform, defense policy and planning, civil-military relations, education and training, military cooperation between military and joint exercises, civil emergency planning and disaster response, as well as scientific and environmental cooperation.
The essence of the PfP program is the partnership created individually between the Euro-Atlantic partner and NATO, taking into account individual needs and jointly implemented level and pace, which the participating States have chosen.
Over the years, the PFP range, tools and mechanisms have been developed to support collaboration through policies, programs, action plans and activities. At the Lisbon meeting in November 2010, as part of a focused reform effort to develop a more efficient and flexible partnership policy, the leaders of the NATO countries decided to take measures to streamline partnership tools with NATO in order to open all joint activities and exercises for partners and harmonization of partnership programs. In the policy of new partnerships, approved by the NATO foreign ministers in Berlin in April, all joint activities and exercises offered by PfP to partners, some programs offered by PfP, a “toolkit” for all partners, be it Euro-Atlantic partners, countries participating in the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative or global partners.
The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council provides a common political framework for NATO's cooperation with Euro-Atlantic partners and in the framework of bilateral relations between NATO and individual partner countries in the framework of the Partnership for Peace program.
Currently, the Partnership for Peace program consists of 22 countries.
That is, this program is aimed at cooperation on a wide range of issues with individual countries of the Alliance. As an example, you can use the Russian-Norwegian naval exercises, the purchase of "Mistral" in France, etc.
Later, the question arose of how to deal with the status of troops stationed on the territory of another country during, for example, exercises. If with the countries of the Alliance the status of their Forces is regulated by the 19 Agreement of June 1951, then what about those states that are not members of NATO? Thus, the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace Program on the status of their Forces and the Additional Protocol dated 19 June 1995 g. Appeared Below are the full ones:
19 June 1995 г
Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces
States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington 4 on April 1949, and States accepting an invitation to the Partnership for Peace program, issued and signed by the heads of state and government of the Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty in Brussels on January 10, 1994, and which have signed Partnership for Peace Framework Document;
Constituent states participating in the Partnership for Peace program;
Considering that the Forces of one State Party to this Agreement cannot be sent and received by agreement to the territory of another State Party;
Bearing in mind that decisions to send and receive forces will continue to be the subject of separate agreements between the participating States concerned;
Desiring, however, to determine the status of these Forces located in the territory of another participating State;
Referring to the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on the status of their Forces, signed in London on June 19 1951;
Agreed on the following:
Article I:
Except as provided for in this Agreement and any Additional Protocol in relation to its own party, all States Parties to this Agreement apply the provisions of the Agreement between the parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on the status of their Forces signed in London on June 19 of 1951, hereinafter referred to as SOFA. as if all member states have signed this agreement to the nato SOFA.
Article II:
In addition to this area, to which SOFA NATO applies this Agreement will apply on the territory of all the States Parties to this Agreement that are not parties to NATO SOFA.
For the purposes of this Agreement, references to NATO SOFA and the North Atlantic Treaty are also considered to include the territories referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, and references to the North Atlantic Treaty should be considered as including the Partnership for Peace program.
Article III:
In order to implement this Agreement in relation to issues involving Parties that are not Parties to the NATO SOFA, the provisions of the NATO SOFA that are submitted for requests to be submitted and disputes are submitted to the North Atlantic Council, the chairperson of the North Atlantic Council of Deputies or the arbitrator should be interpreted as requiring the parties to be able to agree among themselves, without resorting to external jurisdiction.
Article IV:
This Agreement may be supplemented or modified in accordance with international law.
Article V:
This Agreement will be open for signature by any state that is either a contracting party to NATO SOFA or who has accepted an invitation to participate in the Partnership for Peace program and has signed the Partnership for Peace Framework Document.
This Agreement is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, which shall notify all signatory States.
Thirty days later by the three states that signed it, at least one of which is a participant in NATO SOFA and one that accepted the invitation to the Partnership for Peace program and signed the Partnership for Peace Framework Document, which deposited its instruments of ratification , acceptance or approval, this Agreement enters into force in respect of these States. It shall enter into force in respect of each other state that has signed thirty days after the date of the deposit of its ratification.
Article VI:
This Treaty may be denounced by any Party to this Agreement by written notification of denunciation, so that the government of the United States of America will notify all signatories to such notification. Denunciation shall take effect one year after receipt of the notification from the Government of the United States of America. After the expiration of this period of one year, this Agreement shall become null and void with respect to this state, except for settlement of claims arising prior to the day on which denunciation takes effect, but must remain valid for other states.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective governments, have signed this Agreement.
Signed in Brussels, 19 June 1995 of the year,
In English and French, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. The government of the United States of America sends certified copies to all signatories.
Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace Program on the status of their Forces.
The States Parties to this Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace Program, on the status of their Forces, hereinafter referred to as the Agreement;
Considering that the death penalty is not provided for in accordance with the national legislation of certain parties to the Agreement;
Agreed as follows:
Article I:
Insofar as he has jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement, each State Party to this Additional Protocol does not impose the death penalty on any member of the group and its civilian component, and their dependents from any other State Party to this Additional Protocol.
Article II:
This protocol will be open for signature by any of the signatories to the Agreement.
This protocol is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, which shall notify all signatories of each such deposit.
This protocol enters into force 30 days after the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval by the three signatories, of which at least one is a member of NATO SOFA, one of which is accepting an invitation to join the program Partnership for Peace, and connected to the Partnership for Peace Program Framework Document.
This Protocol enters into force in respect of each other State that has signed since the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval to the Government of the United States of America.
Signed in Brussels, 19 June 1995 of the year,
In English and French, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. The government of the United States of America sends certified copies to all signatories.
Carefully reviewing these documents, you can easily make sure that no NATO invasion in the case of riots and man-made disasters and does not smell. The truth may be objected to me: "And this is stipulated in the Agreement of 19 June 1951 g!". So that there is no doubt, I quote part of this agreement:
Agreement between the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on the status of their Forces
Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington 4 on April 1949,
Considering that the forces of one of the parties can be sent by agreement, to serve, on the territory of the other side;
Considering that the decision to send them and the conditions under which they will be sent, to the extent that conditions are not provided for in this Agreement, continue to be the subject of separate agreements between the parties concerned;
Desiring, however, to determine the status of these forces while in the territory of the other side;
Agreed on the following:
then comes the text of the Agreement itself. As can be seen from the quotation, the direction of troops to another country is determined by agreements. And it will not be Baba Masha from the neighboring entrance, but the top leaders of the countries will agree.
And, as a conclusion, the Federal Law 99-FZ itself. By the way, about the cleanup, which allegedly was conducted on Putin’s orders, is nonsense. I managed to find this document on the legal site “Consultant Plus”. I am sure that if you dig, the document will be on many sites. So:
Federal Law of the Russian Federation of 7 June 2007 g. N 99-FZ "On ratification of the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other states participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces from 19 June 1995 and the Additional Protocol to him
Ratify the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces dated 19 June 1995 of the year, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in Vilnius 21 April 2005, and the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between States parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces dated 19 on June 1995, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in Sofia 28 on April 2006, with the following statement:
in order to implement the Agreement between the States parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other states participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces from 19 June 1995, the Russian Federation proceeds from the following understanding of the following provisions of the Agreement between the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on the status of their Forces from 19 June 1951 of the Year (hereinafter the Agreement):
1) The provision of paragraph 4 of Article III of the Agreement, which obliges the authorities of the sending state to immediately inform the authorities of the receiving state about cases of non-return to their homeland after the dismissal of a soldier or civilian component, applies to the cases of unauthorized abandonment of the sending state by have them weapons;
2) under the words “possess arms” used in Article VI of the Agreement, the Russian Federation on the basis of reciprocity will understand the use and use of weapons, and the words “supportively consider the requests of the receiving state” means the obligation of the authorities of the sending state to take into account the requirements of the receiving state regarding carrying, transporting, transportation, use and use of weapons;
3) the list of offenses referred to in subsection "c" of paragraph 2 of Article VII of the Agreement is not exhaustive and includes, in addition to those listed for the Russian Federation, other offenses against the foundations of its constitutional structure and security and provided for by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation;
4) The Russian Federation, in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article VII of the Agreement, proceeds from the fact that the authorities of the sending state have the right to exercise their jurisdiction if unidentified persons commit crimes against this state, members of its Forces, civilian component or their families. When establishing the perpetrator, the procedure determined by the Agreement is in force;
5) the assistance referred to in subsection a of paragraph 6 of Article VII of the Agreement is provided in accordance with the law of the requested State. When rendering legal assistance, the competent authorities of the States Parties to the Agreement interact directly, and if necessary, through the relevant higher authorities;
6) The Russian Federation admits the importation of goods and vehicles named in paragraphs 2, 5 and 6 of Article XI of the Agreement, equipment and material items referred to in paragraph 4 of Article XI of the Agreement, intended for the needs of the Forces, in accordance with the terms of the customs regime of temporary admission, established by the customs legislation of the Russian Federation. Moreover, such importation is carried out with full conditional exemption from payment of customs duties, taxes, fees, with the exception of customs fees for storage, customs clearance of goods and services of this kind outside the designated places or hours of work of customs authorities, and for the time provided for by the Agreement if such dates are expressly specified in the Agreement.
The Russian Federation assumes that the procedure and conditions for the importation of goods referred to in Article XI of paragraph 4 of the Agreement and intended for the needs of the Force will be governed by separate agreements on the direction and acceptance of the Force between the Russian Federation and the sending state.
No provisions of Article XI, including paragraphs 3 and 8, limit the right of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation to take all necessary measures to monitor compliance with the conditions for the importation of goods and vehicles provided for in Article XI of the Agreement, if such measures are necessary in accordance with customs legislation of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Federation proceeds from the fact that the sending state submits to the customs authorities of the Russian Federation confirmation that all goods and vehicles imported into the Russian Federation in accordance with the provisions of Article XI of the Agreement and separate agreements on the direction and acceptance of the Force between the Russian Federation and the sending state, may be used exclusively for the purpose for which they were imported. If they are used for other purposes with respect to such goods and vehicles, all customs payments stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation must be paid, as well as other requirements established by the legislation of the Russian Federation must be observed.
The transit of these goods and vehicles is carried out in accordance with the customs legislation of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Federation, in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article XI, declares that it allows the import into the customs territory of the Russian Federation of petroleum products intended for use in the operation of service vehicles, aircraft and ships belonging to the Force or the civilian component, with exemption from customs duties and taxes in accordance with the requirements and restrictions established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Federation permits the importation of vehicles named in paragraphs 2, 5 and 6 of Article XI of the Agreement and intended for personal use by civilians and their family members in accordance with the conditions of temporary importation, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Federation assumes that customs clearance of goods imported (exported) by persons from the civilian component and members of their families intended exclusively for their personal use, including goods for initial acquisition, is free of customs duties, with the exception of customs duties for storage, customs clearance of goods and services of this kind outside of the designated places or hours of work of customs authorities;
7) The Russian Federation also assumes that the documents sent to its competent authorities under the Agreement and the materials attached to them will be accompanied by their certified translations into Russian.
President
Russian Federation
Putin
So, after reading all the documents, we can conclude: the notorious Tanks NATO near Moscow is another myth aimed at destabilizing Russia. No doubt, the authors of this plan hoped that an angry people, without trying to figure it out, would demolish the power in the country. We can assume that this plan has failed.
PS
The agreement was ratified almost 5 years ago, but the hysteria about this issue was raised not by chance. Suffice it to recall how the situation was diligently injected before the presidential election. There is something to think about.
Links to documents:
Federal Law of the Russian Federation of 7 June 2007 g. N 99-FZ "On ratification of the Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other states participating in the Partnership for Peace program on the status of their Forces from 19 June 1995 and the Additional Protocol to him "- http://www.rg.ru/2007/06/16/partnesrstvo-doc.html
About the Partnership for Peace Program - http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50349.htm?selectedLocale=en
"Agreement between the States Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty and other States participating in the Partnership for Peace Program on the status of their Forces" dated 19 June 1995 g. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_24742.htm
Additional protocol from 19 June 1995 g - http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_24743.htm
"Agreement between the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Status of their Forces" dated 19 June 1951 g - http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17265.htm
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