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Disarmed Ukraine Backs Current ABM Treaty
Kiev (Interfax) April 8, 2001 Ukraine is convinced that the ABM Treaty, the nucleus of the existing strategic arms limitation system, must be preserved, well-known Ukrainian military expert and Chairman of the State Commission for the Defense-Industrial Complex Vladimir Gorbulin writes in an article published by the Ukrainian newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli on Saturday. "The fact that the international situation has changed and the need to develop a new system of agreements has become obvious, does not mean that the system that has justified itself must be broken and scrapped. This must be clear to all the parties involved," he writes. "The situation demands that the U.S. ratify without delay the Memorandum on the Legal Succession to the ABM Treaty, as well as the documents on demarcation between the strategic and tactical missile systems, signed in New York on September 26, 1997 by the foreign ministers of the states involved. These documents might become a foundation for developing a new global agreement in the area of tactical missile systems," Gorbulin said. Gorbulin also writes that Ukraine might take part in the creation of sea-based tactical missile systems in the Black Sea, and in other joint programs. The situation when Ukraine's strategic partner, the U.S., is actively cooperating with European, Asian and Middle East countries in this area, and is not showing any understanding of the interests of Ukraine, is quite surprising. This is making Ukraine develop cooperation only with Russia, Gorbulin said.
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