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STATEMENT BY THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
ON PLANS WITH RESPECT TO SYSTEMS TO COUNTER BALLISTIC MISSILES
OTHER THAN STRATEGIC BALLISTIC MISSILES
The Republic of Kazakhstan states that, with regard to systems to counter ballistic
missiles other
than strategic ballistic missiles, it has no plans:
(a) before April 1999 to test, against a ballistic target-missile, land-based, sea-based or air-based
interceptor missiles whose velocity exceeds 3 km/sec over any part of their flight trajectory;
(b) to develop such systems with interceptor missiles whose velocity over any part of their flight
trajectory exceeds 5.5 km/sec for land-based and air-based systems or 4.5 km/sec for sea-based
systems; or
(c) to test such systems against ballistic target-missiles with multiple independently targetable
reentry vehicles or against reentry vehicles deployed or planned to be deployed on strategic
ballistic missiles.
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