RUSSIA: U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE SAYS WASHINGTON WILL GO AHEAD WITH TESTS BANNED BY THE 1972 ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY

Record ID: 647917

  • Title: RUSSIA: U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE SAYS WASHINGTON WILL GO AHEAD WITH TESTS BANNED BY THE 1972 ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY
  • Date: 26th July 2001
  • Summary: (W5) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 26, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: RED SQUARE, KREMLIN 0.06 2. SV: VLADIMIR PUTIN ENTERS HALL, SHAKES HANDS WITH AMERICAN DELEGATION 0.36 3. WS'S/SCU/SV: RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN DELEGATIONS SITTING AT TABLE/ LISTENING TO PUTIN (4 SHOTS) 1.14 4. SV: JOURNALISTS 1.18 5. MV: AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN DELEGATIONS WALK OUT OF ROOM 1.30 6. SCU: RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL HEAD VLADIMIR RUSHAILO 1.34 7. WIDE OF PRESSER 1.39 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEEZZA RICE SAYING: "Our testing programme is designed to give us the most effective system not to stay within the constraints of the ABM treaty and that has not changed. That testing programme is going to need to proceed. I think we have with the Russian side and opportunity to make real progress toward a new strategic framework but we will have to get about the work of doing that." 2.02 9. SV: JOURNALISTS 2.07 10. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL HEAD VLADIMIR RUSHAILO SAYING: "This work calls for quite a bigger period of time, serious and well considered approaches." 2.23 11. SV: DELEGATIONS 2.26 12. MV: RICE AND MEMBERS OF DELEGATION WALKING OUT OF ROOM 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 10th August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVAA3E23BG0PVNH4CF6SMQQ1QIV5
  • Story Text: U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said
    Washington would go ahead with tests banned by the 1972
    Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, despite Russia's
    determination to stick to the pact.


    Rice's visit to the Kremlin comes just days after the second
    face-to-face meeting between the American and Russian
    Presidents, at a summit of industrial countries in Italy.

    Rice is at the forefront of the Bush administration's
    efforts to speed up talks on building a shield against what
    Washington sees as missile threats from "rogue states" such as
    North Korea, Iran and Iraq.

    Russia has opposed the plan, which would require
    re-negotiating the landmark 1972 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile)
    treaty.

    The nations have agreed to hold talks on the plan, but
    differences remain and the Kremlin has continued to state that
    it still stands behind the ABM treaty.

    The ABM treaty banned most missile defences under the Cold
    War reasoning that neither side would use nuclear weapons if
    it knew the other could respond. Russian officials have been
    keen to show that by agreeing to discuss the issue Putin has
    not yet abandoned support for the principles of ABM.

    Both sides emerged from the talks repeating much the same
    lines that they had entered, while saying that some progress
    had been made.

    Rice said to the press after the meeting:
    "Our testing programme is designed to give us the most
    effective system not to stay within the constraints of the ABM
    treaty and that has not changed. That testing programme is
    going to need to proceed. I think we have with the Russian
    side an opportunity to make real progress toward a new
    strategic framework but we will have to get about the work of
    doing that."
    Rice's counterpart, Russian Security Council Chair
    Vladimir Rushailo, stated that much work still had to be done:
    "This work calls for quite a bigger period of time,
    serious and well considered approaches."
    The American and Russian sides say they will continue
    their dialogue, working toward expected meetings between Bush
    and Putin in China and possibly in the States this fall.


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