CHINA FOOTSTEP AGAINST AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM
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PEKING, 14 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Alexander Isajew /. " China will not permit it to anybody and under no
circumstances to weaken its legitimate self-defense means or do
without her. "  The avowed Sha Zukang, director of the section arms
check and disarmament of the State Department of the VRCh, and
underlined that this is one of the most important principles of
Chinese national security.

The representative of the Chinese State Department spoke on a press
conference, which was dedicated to the position of the VRCh regarding
the American NMD program.  In this connection the highranking Chinese
diplomat underlined that Peking requires no confrontation between
China and the USA to the NMD question and against the arms race
between the two countries occurs.

The diplomat explained the fact that the VRCh does not believe in the
statements over the fact that the American NMD system will serve the
interests of the peace and security and the view is that this system
will endanger the security of China.

After its words the implementation of the American NMD program will
have a " set of large negative consequences for international security
".  This program will, underlined the diplomat, a danger for global
strategic security to create, which confidence and co-operation
between prominent powers of the world undermine.

The renouncement of Washington of the ABM contract and the development
of the NMD system will destroy the existing balance between prominent
powers of the world and noticed the security of other States of a
serious risk suspend, Sha Zukang.  " this will lead to the growth of
suspicions and distrust between prominent powers and the system of the
coordination and co-operation for problems of international security
will destroy.  Additionally the NMD development will restrain the
process of the arms check, undermines, said a new spiral of the arms
race, among them in the cosmos, stimuli and the regime of the
nichtweiterverbreitung of nuclear weapons " it.

" we are against NMD not, because we have the intention of threatening
with our nuclear weapons of the security of the USA.  We strive simply
for the fact that the existing policy of the mutual deterrence between
the two countries can receive-keep ", underlined Sha Zukang.