Joint Statement on Cooperation on Strategic Stability
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary (Okinawa, Japan)
For Immediate Release July 21, 2000
JOINT STATEMENT
COOPERATION ON STRATEGIC STABILITY
The United States and Russia underscore that continued strengthening of global stability and international security is
one of the most important tasks today. The Joint Statement on Principles of Strategic Stability, adopted in Moscow on
June 4, 2000, establishes a constructive basis for progress in further reducing nuclear weapons arsenals, preserving and
strengthening the ABM Treaty and confronting new challenges to international security.
The United States and Russia have begun intensified discussions on the earliest entry into force of the START II
Treaty, on further reductions in strategic forces within the framework of a future START III Treaty and on ABM issues.
The United States and Russia are dedicated to the search for new ways of cooperation to control the spread of missiles
and missile technology. They will work together on a new mechanism to supplement the Missile Technology Control Regime.
This mechanism would integrate the Russian proposal for a Global Monitoring System, the U.S. proposal for a missile code
of conduct, as well as the mechanisms of the Missile Technology Control Regime, which the United States and Russia will
continue to strengthen. They are prepared to expand their discussions of issues related to the threat of proliferation
of missiles and missile technology.
The United States and Russia reaffirm their commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as the
foundation of the international nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament regime. They will work to ensure early
entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and seek to expand cooperation related to the CTBT
to promote mutually beneficial technical exchanges that will facilitate implementation of the CTBT after its entry into
force.
Broadening their cooperation for the purpose of strengthening stability, the United States and Russia will apply their
efforts toward creating, and placing into operation within the year, a joint U.S.-Russian center for exchange of data
from early warning systems and notification of launches. They will seek to complete work on an agreement on pre-launch
notification for launches of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles, and on principles for opening this system to
the voluntary participation of all interested countries.
The United States and Russia are prepared to renew and expand their cooperation in the area of theater missile
defenses, and consider the possibility of involving other states.
The Presidents of the United States and Russia have agreed that officials will meet in the near future to coordinate
their activities in this area.
Russia and the United States call upon the other nations of the G-8 and all other nations of the world to unite their
efforts to strengthen strategic stability.
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