Kozyrev Attends UN Disarmament Conference Session -- Reaffirms Intention To Ratify START
By ITAR-TASS correspondent Konstantin Pribytkov
Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service
in Russian, 1530 GMT
29 Jun 95
[FBIS Translated Text] Geneva, 29 Jun (ITAR-TASS) --
After arriving in Geneva today Russian Foreign Minister
Andrey Kozyrev reaffirmed the support of President Yeltsin
and the Russian Government for ratification of the START-II
Treaty. Addressing a plenary session of the UN Conference on
Disarmament, the minister stressed that as the president's
representative in parliament he "will do everything
necessary to achieve this." "Naturally we shall be able to
set about ratifying the treaty only if there is strict
compliance with the ABM Treaty on the basis of agreement
with the United States on the demarcation between tactical
and strategic systems."
The signing of the START-II Treaty and the indefinite
extension of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have
secured, according to Kozyrev, "an historic breakthrough in
the sphere of nuclear disarmament." At the same time, the
minister considered it necessary to remind people that the
indefinite extension of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
is "not a mandate for the five nuclear powers to possess
nuclear weapons for all time but a stimulus for their
further active disarmament efforts."
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