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STANDING CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION JOINT STATEMENT
ON THE ANNUAL EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON
THE STATUS OF PLANS AND PROGRAMS
WITH RESPECT TO SYSTEMS TO COUNTER BALLISTIC MISSILES
OTHER THAN STRATEGIC BALLISTIC MISSILES
1. The Parties understand that in implementing the provisions of paragraph 2(b) of Section
IV of the Agreement on Confidence-Building Measures Related to Systems to Counter
Ballistic Missiles Other Than Strategic Ballistic Missiles of September 26, 1997, each Party
will provide information annually on the status of its plans and programs with respect to
systems to counter ballistic missiles other than strategic ballistic missiles that includes:
(a)
whether or not that Party has plans before April 1999 to test, against
a ballistic target-missile, land-based, sea-based or air-based
interceptor missiles whose velocity exceeds 3
km/sec over any part of their flight trajectory;
(b) whether or not that Party has plans to develop such systems with interceptor missiles
whose velocity over any part of their flight trajectory exceeds 5.5 km/sec for land-based
and air-based systems or 4.5 km/sec for sea-based systems; and
(c) whether or not that Party has plans to test such systems against ballistic target-missiles
with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles or against reentry vehicles deployed
or planned to be deployed on strategic ballistic missiles.
2. The Parties understand that should any Party have questions or concerns regarding
activity related to any change in the statement on plans of any other Party, the Parties will,
in accordance with Article XIII of the Treaty Between the United States of America and
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
of May 26, 1972, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty, the Second Agreed Statement of
September 26, 1997, Relating to the Treaty, and Section VI of the Agreement on
Confidence-Building Measures Related to Systems to Counter Ballistic Missiles Other
Than Strategic Ballistic Missiles of September 26, 1997, conduct consultations, within the
framework of the Standing Consultative Commission, to discuss such questions or
concerns, as well as possible proposals for further increasing the viability of the Treaty,
including possible proposals to amend the Second Agreed Statement of September 26,
1997.
S.R. (United States of America)
S.A. (Republic of Belarus)
K.Z. (Republic of Kazakhstan)
V.K. (Russian Federation)
O.R. (Ukraine)
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