CREANT THE " UMBRELLA BALLISTIC ", THE UNITED STATES DISTURB THE
EXISTING BALANCE OF THE FORCES








MOSCOW, March 1.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Piotr Gontcharov).  Andrei
Nikolaiev, president of the committee of defense of Douma (Lower House
of the Russian Parliament), is certain as the implementation in the
United States of the plan of deployment of the national system of
anti-missile defense (NMD) blames the agreements as well on the
reduction of the offensive armaments strategic (START) " in bottom as
in top ".

Staining to withdraw Draft ABM of 1972 of the system of the agreements
occurred on START and creant unilateralement their clean " ballistic
umbrella ", the United States violates the principal principle of the
existing balance of the forces:  " the vulnerabilite equalizes parts
with the blows of missiles ".

In same time, the United States unilateralement re-examines the
ceiling of the reductions of the strategic nuclear warheads, by
establishing it has 2 500 nuclear heads.  Russia insists on the
agreements occurred, according to which this figure must be 1 500,
pointed out the president of the committee of the douma.  This
approach americaine will inevitably lead to the substantial
desequilibre forces between Russia, on the one hand, and the United
States and NATO, other, estimates Andrei Nikolaiev.

It is necessary to add to the 2 500 nuclear warheads restees the
United States the nuclear warheads of the tactical missiles of France
and of Great Britain which can reach the territory of Russia, A
underlines the depute.