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On The Ratification Of The Treaty Between The Russian Federation And The United States Of America On Further Reduction And Limitation Of Strategic Offensive Arms

Original Language Title: О ратификации Договора между Российской Федерацией и Соединенными Штатами Америки о мерах по дальнейшему сокращению и ограничению стратегических наступательных вооружений

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and United States of America on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Weapons adopted by the State Duma on 25 January 2011 Approved by the Federation Council on 26 January 2011 Article 1 Ratified the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Measures for the Further Reduction of and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on 8 April 2010, hereinafter referred to as the New START Treaty. Article 2 Implementation of the New START Treaty is subject to the following conditions: 1) to maintain the capability of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation at the level necessary to ensure OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2) Maintaining the operational readiness of strategic nuclear forces The Russian Federation, in any development of the strategic environment, the preservation and development of the necessary research and development base and production capacity; 3) financing according to the level of available OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Implementation of the new START Treaty; 4) ensuring a secure environment for the operation, storage, elimination and disposal of strategic offensive arms of the Russian Federation; 5) and strategic defensive weapons, the growing importance of this relationship in the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons and the fact that the strategic defence weapons of one of the parties are not undermined Viability and efficiency of strategic offensive Arms of the new START Treaty; 6) extension of the provisions of the New START Treaty, including those relating to warheads and delivery vehicles, in accordance with its conditions for any strategic offensive The issue of extending the provisions of the New START Treaty to any new offensive weapons of strategic range should be the issue of strategic range. permitted under the Bilateral Consultative Commission established under the Article XII of the New START Treaty, before the new Strategic Range offensive, will be deployed; 8) providing telemetry information to the United States of America on existing types of launches " intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles of the Russian Federation only up to the time of separation of the autonomous unit of separation or payload from the latest stage of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or Submarine ballistic missiles and the failure to provide the United States of America telemetric information on the launches of new types of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles of the Russian Federation; 9) the effective use, improvement and development of controls; under the new START Treaty, including national technical means of verification by the Russian Federation for compliance by the United States of America with the New START Treaty. Article 3 1. Compliance by the Russian Federation with the new START Treaty is subject to this Federal Act, as well as other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, which regulate the actions and procedures required by the Russian Federation. arises in the course of the implementation of the New START Treaty. 2. In the process of implementing the New START Treaty: 1) the President of the Russian Federation: (a) defines the main directions of the state policy in the field of development of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and the nuclear power The disarmament, order and timing of the implementation of the New START Treaty, while preserving the capabilities of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and maintaining their combat readiness at the level necessary for the implementation of the Treaty OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The entry into force of the New START Treaty approves a programme for the development of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation as an integral part of the State armament programme and informs the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; " (c) defines the main directions of the international activities of the Russian Federation in the field of strategic offensive arms and missile defence, in order to strengthen strategic stability and ensure national security OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION the types and new types of strategic offensive weapons, as well as the introduction of them in combat; d) define the national concept of further international negotiations in the area of strategic offensive arms and missile defences. Defence, consults and talks with the leaders of other states in order to strengthen strategic stability and ensure national security of the Russian Federation; 2) Government of the Russian Federation: (a) provides, in accordance with federal laws, other OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The design and production capacity necessary to maintain the nuclear capability and operational readiness of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation; in) ensures the effective use of national technical equipment. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION By the United States of America, the provisions of the New START Treaty, their technical improvement, and the conduct of the verification procedures provided for by the New START Treaty; g) after the date of entry into force of this Federal Law Approves the federal targeted programme for industrial and military disposal of weapons and military equipment, which provides for the use of the reduced components and infrastructure of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation for development of the national economy; Security in the operation, storage, disposal and disposal of strategic offensive weapons, nuclear warheads and missile propellant, as well as unauthorized access to nuclear warheads; The use of economically optimal methods and methods for the elimination and disposal of strategic offensive arms; ) after the entry into force of the New START treaty annually informs the Russian Federal Assembly's chambers The Federation on the Implementation of the New START Treaty on the following issues: Implementation by the Russian Federation and the United States of America of obligations under the New START Treaty; deployment by other States of missile defence systems, their impact on the potential of strategic nuclear forces OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION with the United States of America in the area of strategic Russian offensive arms; information on the international agreements of the Russian Federation related to the implementation of the New START Treaty (with the direction of official treaty texts); OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Capacity; Progress of disposal and recycling OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Russian Federation's environmental situation in the storage, elimination and disposition of strategic offensive weapons of the Russian Federation, particularly nuclear warheads and rocket fuel; carrying out foreign policy activities in the field of reduction and Restrictions on strategic offensive arms and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. 3. The House of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, each within the scope of its powers: 1), on the annual consideration of the draft federal law on the federal budget for the next financial year shall take part in the adoption (approval) of decisions on Financing of research and development in the field of strategic offensive arms, procurement of strategic offensive weapons, construction (repair, modernization) of main base facilities of the Strategic Nuclear Forces of the Russian Federation the safe disposal and disposal of strategic offensive arms and the implementation of the New START Treaty; 2) participate in the drafting of federal laws, the State armament programme and The main indicators of the state defense order for the corresponding fiscal year are adopted by the federal laws aimed at supporting the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation at the level necessary to ensure THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Activities in the field of nuclear arms reduction, including the possibility of using the reduced components of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and their infrastructure for the development of the national economy; 3) consider the annual report of the Government of the Russian Federation on the state of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation and progress in the implementation of the New START Treaty; 4), if necessary, take measures in accordance with Section V of the Federal Act N 101-FZ " On international contracts of the Russian Federation ". Article 4 1. The provisions of the preamble to the New START Treaty are indisputable in order to understand the intentions of the parties when signing it, including the content of the conditions and understandings agreed between them, without which the New START Treaty would not have been concluded. In this regard, they should be fully taken into account by the parties in the implementation of the New START Treaty. 2. The Russian Federation is implementing the New START Treaty, envisaged in Article XIV of the New START Treaty, in the event of exceptional circumstances threatening its supreme interests. Such circumstances may include: 1) a fundamental breach by the United States of America of its obligations under the New START Treaty, which could lead to a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation; (2) Deployment by the United States of America, another State or group of States of the missile defence system capable of substantially reducing the effectiveness of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation; 3) United States of America, other State or group of States of strategic offensive weapons or their decision-making in the field of military construction, as well as other circumstances that may pose a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation; 4) deployment by the United States of America The States of America, other States or a group of States of arms that impede the operation of the Russian missile warning system. 3. In the exceptional circumstances referred to in part 2 of this article, the President of the Russian Federation: 1) shall take political, diplomatic and other measures to eliminate the exceptional circumstances or to neutralize their consequences; 2) ensures immediate consultation with the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and, on the basis of the results of such consultations, takes decisions concerning the new START Treaty, with the introduction of such consultations as necessary THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Federal Act No. 101-FZ of 15 July 1995 on international treaties of the Russian Federation. OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Consultations, advice or action are taken within the limits of their competence. Article 5 , the President of the Russian Federation, decides to hold negotiations on further reduction and limitation of nuclear weapons, taking into account the implementation of the New START Treaty, its principles and provisions, and the status of such weapons by the United States of America, of third States in the complex with other national security tasks of the Russian Federation. Article 6 This Federal Law shall enter into force on the date of its official publication. President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Moscow, Kremlin 28 January 2011 N 1-FZ