美国及其西方主要盟国已同意放宽单模光缆和其它通信技术销往前苏联的限制。直到最近,五角大楼和美国的情报机构在光纤设备销往独联体(俄罗斯和其他前苏联共和国)问题上延续冷战时代限制方面扮演了积极的角色。由北大西洋公约组织国家、日本和澳大利亚专家组成的巴黎统筹委员会的一个小组,按照推荐的新方针已把销往独联体的光纤和其它长途通信设备分成三种类别,即国际通信设备、市间设备和市内设备。然而,根据“激光集锦世界”的一篇文章介绍,对独联体仍然不是自由贸易,因为每一类设备都有它自 The United States and its major Western allies have agreed to relax restrictions on the sales of single-mode fiber optic cable and other communications technologies to the former Soviet Union. Until recently, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies played an active role in the continuation of the Cold War era restrictions on the sale of fiber optic equipment to the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia and other former Soviet republics). A panel of the Paris Coordinating Committee of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries, Japan, and Australia experts has divided the fiber optics and other long-distance communications equipment sold to the Commonwealth of Independent States into three categories in accordance with the recommended new guidelines, namely international communications equipment, and municipalities. Inter-equipment and local equipment. However, according to an article in the “Laser Highlights World,” the CIS is still not free trade because each type of device has its own