The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.
CFE, the Federal Electricity Commission, the body that provides electricity almost everywhere outside Mexico city.
The proposal to limit aircraft and troops under the conventional talks enormously complicates the CFE negotiations.
The Russian leader says the CFE treaty no longer reflects the post-Cold War world.
The CFE treaty was adapted in 1999, eight years after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
There are hopes the new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) will make a significant difference over time.
To date ministers have not commissioned independent research into the impact of CfE on children's education.
O'Shea allegedly got that deal by agreeing to give CFE officials 10% of the revenue from the CFE contract.
Under the currently proposed Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, the United States might remove one division from Europe.
The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, signed in 1990, limits the number of conventional weapons countries are allowed.
Lobov, who recently averred that the U.S. military buildup could "wreck" the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) talks underway in Vienna.
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With further CFE steps, up to two additional divisions might be withdrawn.
According to the indictment, O'Shea arranged for CFE officials to get payments totaling as much as 10% of the revenue ABB received from CFE.
He will discuss NATO's proposals to adapt and modernize the CFE treaty, which will insure that there are no destabilizing troop concentrations anywhere in Europe.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the CFE treaty harks back to another age and in many ways it is difficult to see quite why it is relevant today.
For ABB, CFE has been a lucrative client, an electric utility owned by the Mexican government that is responsible for supplying electricity to the entire country of Mexico except Mexico City.
Even as NATO has made the negotiation of a CFE agreement vastly more difficult by expanding its scope, it has greatly inflated expectations about the speed with which agreement can be reached.
"It is ironic that President Bush is considering accepting a compromise solution that will enable Gorbachev to get away with violating both the spirit and the letter of the CFE Treaty, " said Frank J.
He proposed that the talks on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) include limits heretofore resisted by NATO, namely on troops (notably a common ceiling requiring a 30, 000-man reduction in U.S. forces there) and on aircraft.
Federal prosecutors say that after O'Shea was fired by ABB, he worked with CFE officials to cover up their scheme by creating fake, back-dated correspondence to document work that had, according to the Feds, not been performed.
John O'Shea, the 57-year-old former general manager of the Texas unit of ABB, was arrested last week for his alleged role in a conspiracy to bribe Mexican government officials and get business from the Comision Federal de Electricidad, or CFE.
In a related case, a Mexican citizen, Fernando Basurto, a principal of a Mexican company that served as a sales representative for ABB on its CFE contracts, pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to violate the FCPA and money laundering laws.
In particular, the United States must take the lead in order to assure that, while NATO responds positively to changing circumstances in Europe, it does not do so (either through unilateral actions or through CFE or other negotiations) in a way which will lead to political or military arrangements that effectively undermine NATO's ability to serve as an effective deterrent mechanism.
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