EUROPEAN UNION SE PRONOUNCES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF DRAFT
RUSS0-AMERICAIN ON ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE








WASHINGTON, March 7.  (Corr Ria " Novosti " Arkadi Orlov).  No change
intervened in the position of the European Union and its leaders.  The
UE always estimates that the Russo-americain Draft on anti-missile
defense (ABM) is a document " strategic " which supposes that "
nothing must threaten it ".  It is what the minister suedoise
Businesses etrangeres, Anna Lindh, representante of the country
exercant the revolving presidency has the UE, A declares has
Washington.

The head of the diplomacy suedoise, which is in visit in the federal
capital, discussed with the journalists at once after the talks which
it has menes with the Secretary of State americain, Colin Powell.

According to remarks' of Anna Lindh, during his meeting with Colin
Powell it A evokes the information published in the press of the
United States and according to which tactical nuclear weapons would
have ete deployees in the Russian area of Kaliningrad.  After having
indicates that it had already examines this question with the Russian
Minister for the Businesses etrangeres, Igor Ivanov, Anna Lindh said
that it considered it necessary to continue " to examine the whole of
the problem of the tactical nuclear warheads ".

It is also important to make appear the question of the tactical
nuclear armaments " in the agenda of the future international
negotiations and of the talks on START-3 ", A declares the minister
suedoise Businesses etrangeres, which has advertisement that it had
the intention to tackle this problem at the time of its next meeting
with Igor Ivanov Friday has Stockholm.