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Russian minister backs ABM treaty
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia is ready to discuss U.S. concerns about missile threats but firmly stands for keeping the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov wrote in a book that hit Moscow bookstores yesterday.
The ABM treaty has "proven its central role in ensuring strategic stability," Ivanov said in his book, The New Russian Diplomacy, Ten Years of the Country's Foreign Policy, which sums up Moscow's post-Soviet diplomatic activities.
Ivanov's first reiteration of Russia's adherence to the ABM contrasted with a senior U.S. administration official's statement in Washington on Wednesday that Moscow may be on the
verge of accepting the principle of limited anti-missile defense, which would violate the treaty.
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in July to discuss Washington's missile defense plans and deeper cuts in nuclear arsenals in a series of consultations.
Putin is scheduled to meet again with Bush at the sidelines of the Asian economic summit in Shanghai next month, then visit the president at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in November, but Russian officials and analysts have been skeptical of the chances for a quick compromise.
Oleg Chernov, deputy secretary of Putin's security council, told The Washington Post yesterday that "it's impossible" that
an agreement would be reached that quickly and said it would take at least another year to negotiate a compromise.
Alexander Pikayev, a military analyst for the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow, said no quick breakthrough in talks was likely.
Russia has firmly opposed the U.S. intention to build a national defense against ballistic missiles, saying such a missile shield would tilt the military balance in the U.S. favor and undermine global stability.
It has rejected U.S. arguments that the planned missile defense, aimed at threats from such nations as North Korea, is not intended equally to deter a massive strike of the kind Russia is capable of launching.
Arab states reject second attempt at racism conference compromise
The Associated Press
DURBAN, South Africa — Arab states at a U.N. racism conference rejected a second attempt at compromise yesterday on wording on the Middle East conflict. However, South African officials said they were shuttling between the Arab and European delegates, trying to work out a new compromise.
Efforts to reach agreement about another contentious issue, a proposed Western apology for slavery and colonialism, remained bogged down a day before the eight-day conference was scheduled to end.
The proposed Mideast compromise, the second South
African proposal rejected by the Arab states, sought to bridge the gap between the Arabs' call for the conference to condemn Israeli practices as racist and the European Union's refusal to allow the conference to take sides in the conflict.
"This text is completely unacceptable," said Palestinian Ambassador Salman el-Herfi.
The rejected proposal recognized the Holocaust and condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. A copy of the text, obtained by The Associated Press, also expressed concern "about the plight of the Palestinian people under foreign occupation" but did not specifically
"This text is completely unacceptable."
Salman el-Herfi
Palestinian Ambassador
criticize Israel or mention Zionism.
The EU had accepted the proposal, said Koen Vervaeke, representative for Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, who is leading the EU delegation.
"We are not fully happy but ... we consider it as a minimum response to our concerns," he said.
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