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Mitrokhin:
Obama admits conflict-prone nature of the American
ABM
ITAR TASS, July 8, 2009 00:09
US President Barack Obama admits that deployment of
the US ABM system in Europe is prone of conflicts,
said Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the YABLOKO party,
after today’s meeting of Barack Obama with the Russian
oppositions.
The
War against Terrorism and the Transformation of the
World Order, three perpesctives
By Alexei G. Arbatov, CEPS Commentary, November 2001
...two months later after the "Black September",
the weaknesses of the coalition and deficiencies of
the operation are becoming more and more evident,
as well as the confusion and inconsistency of the
United States and other major players in adopting
a new security strategy and still less in implementing
it... (Archive)
Under
a Single Umbrella
By
Alexei Arbatov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, April 7,
2003
The unfolding drama of the war in Iraq has pushed
less sensational problems to the background, even
though these problems may be extremely important in
the long term.
U.S.
Withdraws From ABM Treaty; Global Response Muted
Arms Control Association. By Wade Boese. July-August
2002
A
Russian View. Interview with Alexei Arbaton on ABM
Treaty
pbs.org, August 14, 2001
Interview
with Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman of the State
Duma Defence Committee on the ABM treaty
Ekho Moskvi Radio Station, June 13, 2002
Bush
Pushes On in Post-ABM World
Reuters, June 14, 2002
WASHINGTON -- Thirty years after taking effect as
a bulwark of Cold War deterrence, the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty expired Thursday, freeing the United
States to pursue aggressively its goal of a multibillion-dollar
defense system against enemy missiles.
Russians
Ponder U.S. Relations
By JUDITH INGRAM, Associated Press
Writer, April 2, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Ahead of a Russian-U.S.
summit next month, Russians increasingly are asking
what rewards they have reaped from joining the U.S.-led
anti-terrorist coalition and where President Vladimir
Putin pro-Western policy is leading the nation.
Deputies
See Little New in U.S. Report
By Gregory Feifer Staff Writer, The
Moscow Times, March 12, 2002
In
what would amount to opening a new front in its war
on terrorism, the United States is considering sending
100 to 200 U.S. special operations soldiers to Georgia,
Legislators said Monday there was nothing essentially
new in reports that the United States is preparing
military contingency plans to use nuclear weapons
in certain tactical situations against at least seven
countries, including Russia.
Temporary
Friendship or Eternal Union?
 Obschaya
Gazeta, January 24, 2002
Our party has from the outset ultimately backed the
position expressed by President Vladimir Putin in
his television address to the nation on September
11, 2001, - solidarity with the US in the fight against
international terrorism, a course towards rapprochement
with the West and the establishment of a partnership
and preferably an alliance.
Putin:
U.S. ABM Withdrawal a 'Mistake'
By
Sarah Karush, Associated
Press, December 13, 2001
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. decision
to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
a ``mistake'' Thursday, but said it would pose no
military threat to Russia.
Bush
Plans ABM Treaty Withdrawal
By Barry Schweid,
Associated Press,
December 12, 2001
President Bush told congressional leaders Wednesday
he will withdraw from a treaty considered a cornerstone
of arms control but one that hampers his quest for
a defense against missile attack.
Putin
silent as leaders vent fury over ABM opt-out
By Jon Boyle,
Reuters, December
13, 2001
Russian politicians roundly condemned on Thursday
Washington's impending departure from the ABM treaty,
but few expected President Vladimir Putin to make
a drama out of a crisis from which he should emerge
unscathed.
Russia
must remain in Europe, expert says
Rosbalt Information Agency,
July 24, 2001
Russian
Security or NATO Expansion?
By Alexei Arbatov
The project of restructuring the European political
system after the Cold War is full of contradictions,
a source of intellectual confusion and political uncertainty.
Radical changes in the military-strategic situation
on the old continent have created great temptations
for countries to take hasty, short-sighted steps which
could permanently damage the development of a new
system of collective security. At the same time, those
changes have generated new possibilities for more
constructive relations between states. How, then,
can we take advantage of these opportunities while
resisting the temptations?
U.S.,
Russia Meet Over Missile Shield
By Jim Heintz
The Moscow Times, May 14, 2001, p. 5
Coming to
ground zero of opposition to U.S. plans for a national
missile defense system, a high-level American delegation
met Friday with Russian officials to discuss the divisive
plan.
Bush
says Russia not enemy but could be threat
Reuters, March 13,
2001
President George W. Bush said on Tuesday
that his administration planned to make it clear to
Russian President Vladimir Putin that it did not see
Russia as an enemy, although it may be a threat.
Felix
Filippovsky: Language May Lead Russia and NATO into
an Alliance
Vremya MN, March 6,
2001, p. 3
Yavlinsky’s proposals on the Russian-European
non-strategic anti-ballistic missile defence system
were formulated three years ago. Today, they virtually
formed the basis of Russia's official doctrine.
Grigory
Yavlinsky: Umbrella for Europe, Money for Russia,
Death to Ben Laden
Argumenty i Fakty,
No. 10, 2001
In 1998, Grigory Yavlinsky was the
first Russian politician to raise the question of
a Russia-Europe non-strategic missile-defence system.
At that time many people considered the Yabloko leader's
initiative to be too revolutionary. Things have changed
only now Vladimir Putin proposes that Europe create
such a system. In the following article Yavlinsky
provides his own assessment of the meaning of the
Russian President's initiative.
Three
Years and the Whole ABM Story
Obschaya Gazeta, 22.02.01
...And what was the result? After
becoming acquainted with the letter, George Bush Jr.
transfers Yavlinsky's initiative to Russian-American
soil, and sends a letter to Putin on February 20,
proposing the involvement of the enterprises of the
Russian military-industrial complex in the creation
of ABM components. In the morning the Kremlin, obviously
frightened by such a radical wording of the issue
- which is extremely favourable in terms of propaganda
- urgently sets forth counter-initiatives to Europe,
again, in accordance with Yavlinsky's logic. The difference
is that Bush had been thinking over the answer for
three weeks, and the Kremlin for three years. The
very three years during which this protracted rivalry
over ABM could have resulted in an entirely different
outcome for Russia.
Putin
Touts Limited Shield to NATO
By Simon Saradzhyan, Staff Writer, The Moscow
Times, Wednesday, February 21, 2001. Page 1
"The Russian proposal deals with threats posed
by short- and mid-range missiles, while the American
system is intended to fend off intercontinental missiles,"
Arbatov said on ORT.
If
Grigory Yavlinsky were president...
Komsomolskaya Pravda, January 31,
2001, p. 6
The USA, Russia and Europe have a
right to defend themselves from non-strategic nuclear
weapons. The creation of a Russian-European missile
defence system is our political goal, and one of the
most important strategic priorities. Our military
analysts understand that a reliable anti-missile umbrella
cannot be created without using Russian territory,
from Russia's Western borders to the Urals.
How
China and Russia Are Reacting to NMD
St Peterburg Times N 640, Tuesday,
January 30, 2001
At Davos, a Chinese position is being
explored to agree to a level of U.S. missile defense
that would counter blackmail from rogue states - but,
in return for inspection rights given to the U.S.,
would not be overly effective against what China likes
to think of as its own nuclear deterrent.
In Russia, a similarly happy outcome is possible,
but the impetus is different from China's, because
the Russian regime is supremely confident of its political
stability, whereas China is not.
After
test fails, Russia again urges U.S. to drop missile
shield proposal
CNN World July 8, 2000
MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russian officials on
Saturday reiterated their opposition to the U.S. National
Missile Defense System after a key test of the program
by the Pentagon failed overnight.
Remarks
of Alexei G. Arbatov, Deputy Chair, Defense Committee,
State Duma of Russian Federation
Carnegie Moscow Center-sponsored
seminar on START-ABM Treaties, 24 May 2000
Russia, as you are aware, ratified
START II and the New York documents last April. The
United States ratified the START II Treaty in 1996.
Now we find ourselves in a quite strange situation.
Both the United States and Russia ratified START II,
but they ratified absolutely different treaties
Nuclear
Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding
IC Interview With Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997 |
