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On The Ratification Of The Treaty Between The United States And The Russian Federation On Strategic Offensive Reductions

Original Language Title: О ратификации Договора между Российской Федерацией и Соединенными Штатами Америки о сокращении стратегических наступательных потенциалов

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Strategic Reduction of Strategic Offensive Reduces Adopted by the State Duma on 14 May 2003 Approved by the Federation Council on 28 May 2003 Article 1 Strategic Offensive Reduces, signed in Moscow 24 (hereinafter referred to as the NPC Treaty). Article 2 Implementation of the START Treaty is based on the following: Support for the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation needed to ensure national security of the Russian Federation The Federation, including the deployment by the United States of America of a missile defence system; Maintenance of the combat readiness of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation in any development of the strategic environment, preservation and development of the necessary laboratory and test facilities and " Priority financing of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation, activities for the preservation and development of necessary laboratory and test facilities and facilities, as well as for the work on and the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed in Moscow on 31 July 1991 START); reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms of the Russian Federation to be covered by the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, while keeping them in active service for as long as possible; of the Russian Federation; the effective use, improvement and development of the verification system and confidence-building measures established by the Treaty of the Russian Federation, including national technical means of control of the Russian Federation Federation for United States compliance with the START Treaty and the START Treaty; harmonization with the United States of America on the basis of the START Treaty provisions of confidence, transparency and predictability in strategic reductions. offensive capabilities, along with other possible complementary measures. Article 3 Implementation of the obligations under the START Treaty shall be carried out in accordance with this Federal Act, as well as other laws and regulations of the Russian Federation governing acts and procedures, The need for which arises in the implementation of the START Treaty. In the process of implementing the START Treaty: 1. The President of the Russian Federation: defines the main directions of the state policy in the field of development of strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and nuclear disarmament, taking into account the implementation of the activities to implement the Treaty on the Strategic Nuclear Forces; " Within three months after the entry into force of the Treaty, the Russian Federation sent to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation information on the main parameters of the programme for the development of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation; defines the main directions of international activity OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2. The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, each within the scope of its powers: , with the annual federal budget bill for the next fiscal year, participates in the adoption (approval) of volume decisions Financing research and development in the field of strategic offensive arms, procurement of strategic offensive arms, construction (repair, modernization) of strategic base facilities of the Russian Federation the elimination and disposal of strategic offensive arms and the implementation of the Treaty on the START and the START Treaty; participate in the drafting of federal laws, the State armament programme and the basic of the state defense order for the corresponding fiscal year, adopt (approve) federal laws aimed at supporting the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation at the level necessary to ensure national security THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The reduction of nuclear weapons, including the possibility of using the downsizing of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and their infrastructure for the development of the domestic economy; consider the annual report of the Government of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the START Treaty and the START Treaty; , if necessary, take measures in accordance with section V of the Federal Law July 15 "The Russian Federation" (1995) "On international agreements of the Russian Federation". The Government of the Russian Federation: 1) provides, in accordance with federal laws, the state armament program and basic indicators of the state defense order for the corresponding financial year After the entry into force of the Treaty, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation informs the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the progress made in the implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Forces (RPCR) after the entry into force of the Treaty. START Treaty on the following: Implementation of the Russian Federation Federation and the United States of America obligations under the START Treaty and the START Treaty; deployment by other States of missile defence systems and possible threats to the national security of the Russian Federation in the case of of the Russian Federation's dialogue with the United States of America on strategic offensive arms; Implementation of the START Treaty (with formal texts of treaties); Financial support for the strategic nuclear forces ' capabilities, their combat readiness and performance; status and capabilities Laboratory test base and production capacity; course of liquidation and disposition of retired strategic offensive arms of the Russian Federation, status of financing of Treaty activities START and the START Treaty, including with the use of international technical Assistance; environmental conditions in strategic offensive arms storage, elimination and disposal, especially nuclear warheads and missile propellations. Article 4 Russian Federation is exercising the right under article IV of the START Treaty to withdraw from it in the face of exceptional circumstances endangering its supreme interests. Such circumstances may include: a fundamental breach by the other party of the obligations of the Treaty; the deployment by another State or group of States of a missile defence system capable of substantially reducing efficiency of strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation; the build-up of strategic offensive weapons by another State or group of States; or their decision-making in the field of military construction, as well as other circumstances that may arise OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION In the exceptional circumstances specified in part one of this article, the President of the Russian Federation: shall take political, diplomatic and other measures to eliminate exceptional circumstances or neutralize them Effects; provides urgent consultations with the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and taking into account the outcome of such consultations, takes decisions concerning the START Treaty and the START Treaty, with the introduction of OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Proposals contained in the Federal Act No. 101-FZ of 15 July 1995 on international treaties of the Russian Federation. OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION shall make their recommendations or take other action within the limits of their competence. Article 5 This Federal Law shall enter into force on the date of its official publication. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Moscow, Kremlin 29 May 2003 N 62-FZ