RUSSIA FOR ACTIVATION OF THE ACTIVITY THAT GENEVA DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE








MOSCOW, 1 March (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Alexander
Smotrow).  Russia occurs Geneva disarmament conference for the further
activation of the activity that.  From the Russian State Department it
was reported on Thursday that Moscow took the recent speech of the
Permanent Representative of the VR China in the conference under the
magnifying glass.  Moscow divides the concern of Peking over it that a
real progress in the nuclear disarmament is missing, it was said.

The Russian external office supports most states in their concern over
plans of the USA to set up a system of the national anti-missile
defense (NMD) or a global ABM system and to use space for these
purposes.

" Russia pleads to Geneva conference for the prevention of the arms
race in space for the resumption of an intensive and result-rich work
of the special committee that.  Russia at the same time refers a
further mark to the necessity to receive and strengthen the ABM
contract from 1972 on, which is as cornerstone of strategic stability,
which was also recognized by the USA in the passed year.  The present
Treaty permits it to further diminish and receive the contract-legal
system within the area of the nichtweiterverbreitung from nuclear
weapons and carrier means in addition the strategic offensive weapons
", stresses the external office.