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Monday, February 5, 2001 - Web posted at 10:12:23 AM GMT Missile plan raises tensions MUNICH - A senior Russian security official said yesterday that US plans to deploy an anti-missile system would undermine world stability and lead to a new arms race in outer space. Speaking at a defence conference in Munich, Sergei Ivanov, secretary of Russia's security council, offered talks on deep cuts in strategic nuclear arms if Washington abandons its plans. "The destruction of the ABM Treaty will result in the annihilation of the whole structure of strategic stability and create prerequisites for a new arms race, including one in outer space," Ivanov said in remarks clearly aimed at the new administration of US President George Bush. Defence analysts say the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the then Soviet Union would be breached by the new US system if it were to come into force. He spoke a day after new US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking at Munich, reiterated Washington's intention of developing a missile shield despite objections from its European allies, Russia and other nations. - Nampa-Reuters |
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