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U.S.-Russian Joint Statement and Implementation Plan |
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(Source : US State Department ; issued Sept. 7, 2000)
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The White House has issued the text of a joint statement committing the United States and Russia for the first time to finishing an agreement on pre-notification of launches of ballistic missiles and laying out specific steps for creating a shared early warning facility in 2001.
President Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative during their meeting September 6 in New York, where they were attending the United Nations Millennium Summit.
The White House text includes the following acronyms and abbreviations:
APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum
CTBT: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
MTCR: Missile Technology Control Regime
TMD: Theater Missile Defense
Following is the text of the joint statement:
Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative between
the United States of America and Russian Federation
Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative
President William Jefferson Clinton of the United States of America
and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation met today in
New York and agreed on a Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative as
a constructive basis for strengthening trust between the two sides and
for further development of agreed measures to enhance strategic
stability and to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, missiles and missile technologies worldwide. In
furtherance of this initiative, the two Presidents approved an
implementation plan developed by their experts as a basis for
continuing this work.
The Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative builds on the
Presidents' agreement in their two previous meetings. The Joint
Statement on Principles of Strategic Stability, adopted in Moscow on
June 4, 2000, and the Joint Statement on Cooperation on Strategic
Stability, adopted in Okinawa on July 21, 2000, establish a
constructive basis for progress in further reducing nuclear weapons
arsenals, preserving and strengthening the ABM Treaty, and confronting
new challenges to international security. The United States and Russia
reaffirm their commitment to the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of
strategic stability. The United States and Russia intend to implement
the provisions of the START I and INF Treaties, to seek early entry
into force of the START II Treaty and its related Protocol, the 1997
New York agreements on ABM issues and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty, and to work towards the early realization of the 1997
Helsinki Joint Statement on Parameters on Future Reductions in Nuclear
Forces. The United States and Russia also intend to seek new forms of
cooperation in the area of non-proliferation of missiles and missile
technologies with a view to strengthening international security and
maintaining strategic stability within the framework of the Strategic
Stability Cooperation Initiative between our two countries.
The Strategic Stability Cooperation Initiative could include, along
with expansion of existing programs, new initiatives aimed at
strengthening the security of our two countries and of the entire
world community and without prejudice to the security of any state.
START III Treaty and ABM Treaty.
The United States and Russia have presented their approaches
to the principal provisions of the START III Treaty and on ABM issues.
The United States and Russia have held intensified discussions
on further reductions in strategic offensive forces within the
framework of a future START III Treaty and on ABM
issues, with a view to initiating negotiations expeditiously, in
accordance with the Moscow Joint Statement of September 2, 1998, the
Cologne Joint Statement of June 20, 1999 and the Okinawa Joint
Statement of July 21, 2000 by the two Presidents. They will seek to
agree upon additional measures to strengthen strategic stability and
confidence, and to ensure predictability in the military field.
NPT, CTBT, FMCT, BWC and Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones.
The United States and Russia reaffirm their commitment to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as the foundation of the
international nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament
regime.
The United States and Russia will seek to ensure early entry into
force and effective implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty. They will continue to work to begin negotiations to
conclude a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty and to strengthen the
Biological Weapons Convention. They will continue to facilitate the
establishment of nuclear weapon-free zones in the world, based on
voluntary agreements among states in the relevant region, consistent
with the relevant 1999 Report of the United Nations Disarmament
Commission, as an important avenue for efforts to prevent nuclear
weapons proliferation.
Discussions of issues related to the threat of proliferation of
missiles and missile technology. The United States and Russia are
prepared to expand their discussions of issues related to the threat
of proliferation of missiles and missile technologies. These
discussions will include annual briefings based on assessments of
factors and events related to ballistic and cruise missile
proliferation. Annual assessments will address potential threats to
international security. With a view to preventing the proliferation of
missiles and weapons of mass destruction, political and diplomatic
measures will be discussed and undertaken, using bilateral and
multilateral mechanisms.
Cooperation in the area of Theater Missile Defense.
The United States and Russia are prepared to resume and then
expand cooperation in the area of Theater Missile Defense (TMD),
and also to consider the possibility of involving other states, with a view
to strengthening global and regional stability.
The sides will consider as specific areas of such cooperation:
**Expansion of the bilateral program of joint TMD command and staff exercises.
**Possibility of involving other states in joint TMD command and staff exercises.
**Possibility of development of methods for enhanced interaction for joint use of TMD systems.
**Joint development of concepts for possible cooperation in TMD systems.
**Possibility of reciprocal invitation of observers to actual firings of TMD systems.
Early warning information.
The United States and Russia, in implementation of the
Memorandum of Agreement between the United States of America
and the Russian Federation on the Establishment of a
Joint Center for the Exchange of Data from Early Warning Systems and
Notification of Missile Launches signed in Moscow on June 4, 2000,
intend to establish and put into operation in Moscow within a year the
joint center for exchange of data to preclude the possibility of
missile launches caused by a false missile attack warning. The Parties
will also make efforts to come to an early agreement on a regime for
exchanging notifications of missile launches, consistent with the
statement of the Presidents at Okinawa on July 21, 2000.
Missile Non-Proliferation measures.
The United States and Russia intend to strengthen the
Missile Technology Control Regime. They declare their commitment
to seek new avenues of cooperation with a view to limiting
proliferation of missiles and missile technologies.
Consistent with the July 21, 2000, Joint Statement of the Presidents
at Okinawa, they will work together with other states on a new
mechanism to integrate, inter alia, the Russian proposal for a Global
Control System for Non-Proliferation of Missiles and Missile
Technologies (GCS), the U.S. proposal for a missile code of conduct,
as well as the MTCR.
Confidence and transparency-building measures.
Bearing in mind their obligations under the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the United States
and Russia will seek to expand cooperation related to the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to promote
a mutually beneficial technical exchange that will facilitate the
implementation of the CTBT after its entry into force. The United
States and Russia are prepared to discuss confidence and
transparency-building measures as an element of facilitating
compliance with, preserving and strengthening the ABM Treaty. These
measures could include: data exchanges, pre-notifications of planned
events, voluntary demonstrations, participation in observations,
organization of exhibitions, and strengthening the ABM Treaty
compliance verification process.
The Presidents of the United States and Russia have agreed that
officials from the relevant ministries and agencies will meet annually
to coordinate their activities in this area, and look forward with
interest to such a meeting in the near future.
The United States and Russia call upon all nations of the world to
unite their efforts to strengthen strategic stability.
Implementation Plan
-- Discussions of issues related to the threat of proliferation of missiles and missile technologies
The U.S. will brief Russia on the update of the National Intelligence Estimate of the ballistic missile threat that has just been completed, and Russia will provide its latest assessment.
-- Cooperation in the area of Theater Missile Defense
The United States and Russia agreed to conduct a U.S.-Russian planning
and simulation exercise in February, 2001 at Colorado Springs,
Colorado and a U.S.-Russian field training exercise at Fort Bliss,
Texas by late 2001 or early 2002. Planning meetings for the 2001
exercise will continue in Moscow in September and November-December at
the Joint National Test Facility in Colorado Springs. Joint TMD
exercise expert talks will also discuss the possibility of reciprocal
invitation of observers to actual firings of TMD systems.
-- Early warning information
By the end of this fall, the United States and Russia expect to begin
preparation of the Moscow site for the Joint Data Exchange Center
(JDEC) and begin renovation of the building that will house the
center, as well as begin drafting concept of operations and standard
operating procedures documents. The United States and Russia intend to
commence operations at the JDEC in June of 2001, with full operations
to begin in September 2001. Regular meetings of working groups under
the Joint Commission will take place in coming months.
The United States and Russia have agreed to set as an objective the
completion of a bilateral agreement on a pre-launch notification
system for launches of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles by
the APEC summit in November, while also reaching agreement on how the
system will be opened up to the voluntary participation of all
interested countries. They will meet to intensify negotiations in
September.
-- Missile Non-Proliferation measures
The United States and Russia will work to reach consensus among MTCR
partners at the October 9-13 Plenary, as well as with other countries,
on plans for a global missile non-proliferation approach.
-- Confidence and transparency-building measures
Experts will meet this fall to review and approve additional warhead
safety and security issues for expanded cooperation related to the
CTBT. Experts will meet before the end of this year to consider
expanded cooperation in the area of computations, experiments and
materials. Experts in CTBT monitoring and verification will be
scheduled to meet in late 2000 or early 2001 to consider expanded
cooperation in this area
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