ABM Treaty: Disagreement Remains, Powell Says

While the United States and Russia have made progress toward an agreement to reduce nuclear weapons (see related GSN story, today), little progress has been achieved in the U.S.-Russian dispute over the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, according to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (see GSN, Nov. 29).

“There is still this disagreement with respect to our missile defense programs,” Powell told reporters en route to Moscow for a meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Increasingly the ABM Treaty constrains what the president feels we must do in order to get our missile defense systems.  We haven’t found yet a way to get through that by their accepting the testing we have to do,” Powell said (Alan Sipress, Washington Post, Dec. 10).

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