STATE DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIA DOES NOT COMMENTATE EXPRESSIONS OF A
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE RF








MOSCOW, 1 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" Korr. /.  The State Department of
Russia does not commentate the expressions of representatives of other
offices.  The avowed today Alexander Jakowenko, director of the
section information and press of the State Department of the RF, in
its RIA "Nowosti" interview in connection with the expressions of
yesterday lieutenant generals Wjatscheslaw of the Romanow,
director/conductor of the national center for reduction of the nuclear
weapon danger, to questions of strategic stability.

As Jakowenko underlined, the State Department of Russia is ready to
describe only assertions of the authorized representatives of the
Russian state.

The previous evening general Romanow on the press conference in Moscow
explained among other things that Russia in the case of the withdrawal
of the USA from the ABM contract is technical in a the position to
seize in the context of the examination of the contracts START-1 and
START-2 adequate measures for example therein what concerns rockets
with multiple warheads of different basing, as well as a section of
short and medium-range missiles to re-create.

Romanow underlined at the same time that the political decision, if
the country is placed before the fact of the destruction of the ABM
contract from the year 1972 is made by the guidance of the country.