Как известно, летом президент Буш приезжает в Россию, и российская сторона очень хотела бы подписать некий обязывающий документ, который бы фиксировал намерения сторон по сокращению стратегических вооружений.
Известно, также, что делегация, возглавляемая Балуевским, обсуждала этот вопрос на прошлой неделе в Вашингтоне.
По поводу содержания готовящегося документа было и остается много спекуляций в прессе, но вот, оказывается, чего на самом деле добивается российская сторона:
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Question: John Rhinelander. A question for Rose. What do you think the Russians expect to get in terms of content out of a legally binding document? I can see a treaty saying the sun will come up tomorrow, but if anybody expects any limits on deployment of offensive weapons, I think they don't understand the current administration.
Rose Gottemoeller: No, they don't. I can tell you what they've told me, and that is they say that they require only a very simple, straightforward, perhaps two-page document that would have a minimum of three points. One, a restatement of the unilateral reduction announcements that President Putin and President Bush have already made. Second, some kind of statement that the national missile defense system that the United States is constructing and any missile defense system that the Russian Federation would construct would not be designed in such a way as to remove the viability of the offensive deterrent on the other side. And then the third point, and it's the point I mentioned earlier, is that the two sides will engage in a continuing process to develop new transparency measures that will be required to build confidence in the implementation of the reductions that the presidents have promised.
So again I want to make that point. It's not a verification, a legally binding verification measure to verify that reductions have taken place, but a transparency measure to increase confidence that reductions are moving forward as promised by the president. So they have a very minimalist approach as to what they need. Some other things are being embroidered into it. Many of you have probably seen Balayevsky's press conference in which he mentioned some other things like, as I said earlier, financing of reductions continuing to take place on a cooperative basis—i.e., Nunn-Lugar continues to pay for Russian eliminations. That's fine, as far as I'm concerned. And we should be willing for the value of transparency alone that it give us into the Russian nuclear complex. So --
в принципе где-то про то,что требования РФ "минималистичны" и в общем совпадают с желаниями амеров было - в каком-то отчете про эту самую пресс-конференцию Балуевского, или Юрий Голотюк еще раньше написал.
Спасибо!
С уважением, А.Никольский
Особенно это :
That's fine, as far as I'm concerned. And we should be willing for the value of transparency alone that it give us into the Russian nuclear complex.
Таки амеры в лучших западных традициях хотят контролировать ВСЁ. "Молодцы". :((((