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U.S.-Russia: Joint Tactical Anti-Missile Exercises Planned During arms reduction talks this week in Washington, the United States and Russia worked out plans to conduct joint tactical anti-missile defense exercises, ITAR-Tass reported today (see GSN, Jan. 16). A third stage of the joint exercises will take place in the United States at the end of the month, said Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces. He added that Russia agreed to host the fourth stages of the joint exercises. Treaty Considerations Joint strategic anti-missile defense exercises are not being considered at this time because the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is in effect for another five months, Baluyevsky said (Andrei Sitov, ITAR-Tass, Jan. 17). He said Russia felt that the U.S. decision to leave the ABM treaty is a “mistake” that has damaged the atmosphere of the talks (see GSN, Dec. 13, 2001). The lower house of the Russian parliament Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution that condemned the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty. The withdrawal is “destabilizing, since it in effect ruins the existing highly efficient system of ensuring strategic stability and paves ground for a new round of the arms race,” said the Duma resolution (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17).
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