ANNEX 13
PROCEDURES FOR ADDITIONAL CONFIRMATION OF
THE DIMENSIONS OF FIRST STAGES OF SLBMS
66 This Annex is included in this Protocol pursuant to Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission Agreement No. 7
of April 14, 1993.
I. Procedures for Conducting Exhibitions
1. Pursuant to subparagraph 5(d) of Annex 11 to this Protocol, the Russian Federation, hereinafter
referred to in this Annex as the exhibiting Party, shall conduct exhibitions of SLBMs of the types
designated by the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine
as RSM-40, RSM-50, RSM-52, and RSM-54, which are known to the United States of America as SS-N-8,
SS-N-18, SS-N-20, and SS-N-23, respectively, for the purpose of additional confirmation of the
dimensions of the first stages of such SLBMs. The exhibition of an SLBM of each such type:
(a) shall be considered to be a technical characteristics exhibition pursuant to paragraph 11 of Article
XI of the Treaty;
(b) shall be conducted subject to the provisions of this Protocol, including paragraph 5 of Section III;
paragraphs 8 and 9 of Section V; paragraphs 15, 19, and 28 of Section VI; and paragraphs 4, 5, and 7 of
Section XIV; and using any of the equipment specified in Section III of Annex 8 to this Protocol; and
(c) shall be conducted during the first elimination of an SLBM of each such type.
2. The exhibiting Party shall provide to the United States of America, hereinafter referred to as the
inspecting Party, a notification through the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center no less than 30 days in
advance of each exhibition conducted in accordance with this Annex. Such notification shall include: The
type of SLBM to be exhibited, the location at which such exhibition will take place, and the date of such
exhibition.
3. The exhibiting Party shall have the right, at its discretion, to either exhibit an SLBM and,
simultaneously, a separate first stage of an SLBM of the same type, or to exhibit sequentially an SLBM
and then its separated first stage. The SLBM being exhibited for the purpose of additional confirmation of
the dimensions of the first stage of an SLBM of that type shall be an SLBM on which the exhibiting Party
shall have the right to carry out, before the exhibition, some of the procedures for the elimination of an
SLBM, to include removing some assemblies and elements of the SLBM. For sequential exhibitions of
the SLBM and its first stage, the exhibiting Party shall separate the first stage from the rest of the exhibited
SLBM, subject to the provisions of Section II of this Annex.
4. The inspecting Party shall have the right to confirm by external viewing and by measurement of the
dimensions of the SLBM being exhibited that it is an SLBM of the declared type. If inspectors are unable
to determine the type of SLBM, representatives of the exhibiting Party shall take steps to resolve the
problem. Such steps shall include the opportunity for the inspecting Party to measure those removed
assemblies and elements of the SLBM that contribute to the "Length of Assembled Missile Without Front
Section" for the type of SLBM being exhibited, specified in Annex F to the Memorandum of Understanding.
Upon completion of such viewing and such measurements, the SLBM being exhibited shall not be subject
to further inspection.
5. The inspecting Party shall have the right to confirm the length and diameter of the exhibited separate
first stage of the SLBM, or first stage of the SLBM separated during the exhibition, by measurement of its
dimensions. Such measurements shall be made in accordance with the procedures provided for in
paragraph 7 of Section XIV of this Protocol.
6. A member of the in-country escort, at the request of the inspectors, shall photograph the exhibited
separate or separated first stage of the SLBM, in order to obtain three photographs of that stage that meet
the requirements of paragraph 10 of Annex J to the Memorandum of Understanding. Such photographs
shall be produced using a camera system of the exhibiting Party. If an ambiguous situation arises, a
member of the in-country escort, at the request of the inspectors, shall take photographs using the camera
system of the inspecting Party, subject to the provisions of paragraphs 18 and 27 of Section VI of, and
Subsection B of Section VI of Annex 8 to, this Protocol.
7. The exhibiting Party shall provide the inspection team with one photograph of the first stage of the
exhibited SLBM. Such photograph shall meet the requirements of the agreement between the
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics concluded on July 31, 1991, through the exchange of letters on the provisions of photographs
of items subject to the Treaty.
8. Pursuant to subparagraph 5(d) of Annex 11 to this Protocol, during the exhibition of the first stage of
the SS-N-20 SLBM provided for in this Annex, the inspecting Party shall also have the right to confirm the
diameter of the third stage of the SS-N-20 SLBM. A member of the in-country escort, at the request of the
inspectors, shall photograph the third stage of the SS-N-20 SLBM in order to obtain three photographs of
that stage that meet the requirements of paragraph 10 of Annex J to the Memorandum of Understanding.
Such photographs shall be produced using a camera system of the exhibiting Party. If an ambiguous
situation arises, a member of the In-country escort, at the request of the inspectors, shall take
photographs using the camera system of the inspecting Party, subject to the provisions of paragraphs 18
and 27 of Section VI of, and Subsection B of Section VI of Annex 8 to, this Protocol.
II. Procedures for Separating an SLBM First Stage from the SLBM Being Exhibited
1. After the inspectors have confirmed the type of an SLBM pursuant to paragraph 4 of Section I of this
Annex, the exhibiting Party shall have the right to separate, outside the field of view of inspectors, the first
stage from the rest of the SLBM being exhibited at the location where the first stage separates from an
SLBM during its flight, by mechanical severing of the missile's airframe by pyrotechnic devices of the
missile, provided that the process of separation is carried out in such a way as to permit inspectors to
ascertain that the first stage, the dimensions of which they will confirm, belongs to the SLBM being
exhibited, the type of which they had previously confirmed.
2. Before the first stage is separated from the rest of the SLBM being exhibited, inspectors shall have the
right to view the room or area in which the first stage will be separated, to ascertain that the room or area
does not contain another first stage of an SLBM of that type.
3. During the entire process of first stage separation, the inspectors shall have the right to observe all
exits of the room or area where the process of separating the first stage from the SLBM is carried out.
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