EUROPEAN UNION FOOTSTEP FOR PRESERVATION OF THE RUSSIAN-CAmerican ABM
CONTRACT








WASHINGTON, 7 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Arkadi Orlow /. the position of the European union and their guidance
experienced no change.  The EU still holds the Russian-American
contract over anti-missile defense (ABM contract) for " strategic "
document and means that " nothing him must threaten ".  The avowed in
Washington the Foreign Minister of Sweden Anna Lindh, representative
of the country, which praesidiert in the EU.

The Swedish Foreign Minister is to an attendance in the American
capital and met with journalists the negotiations with the US
Secretary of State Colin Powell right after.

After words Lindhs had not raised it during the meeting with Powell
the question, which is connected with statements of some mass media
over alleged accommodation of tactical nuclear weapons with the
Russian city Kaliningrad.  Lindh indicated that she had already
treated this question with the minister of foreign affairs of Russia
Igor Iwanow, and said that she considers it necessary, " the problem
of tactical core warheads further generally to treat ".

Important is also, the question over tactical nuclear weapon " to
future international negotiations and negotiations over the
START-3-Vertrag to take up ", explained the Foreign Minister of Sweden
and indicated that it has the intention of beginning to cut this
problem during its forthcoming meeting with Igor Iwanow on Friday in
Stockholm.