RUSSIA * GOVERNMENT * KLEBANOW * ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE








MOSCOW:  IT IS COMES PREMATURELY TO STRUCTURE an ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE
COMMON SYSTEM WITH the VRCh MOSCOW, 2 March.  (RIA "Nowosti"
rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent).  Vice-prime minister Ilja Klebanow is
the opinion that it is sometimes premature to take position to the
messages after which Russia and the VRCh an anti-missile defense
system construct together can, if the USA from the ABM contract of
1972 separate.

The vice-prime minister stressed before the press that " any counter
measures are only conceivable, if the USA actually withdraw from the
contract ".  " it does not have a sense to intimidate someone under
these conditions.  One must prove that such actions destroy,
underlined the power survey in the world " Klebanow.

It noted on the other hand that China and Russia turned categorically
against the withdrawal of the USA from the ABM contract.