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The 4 December 1995 edition of "The Washington Times" includes the text 
of the US-Russian "Agreed Framework" covering theater and regional 
anti-missile systems, which was reached on 17 November 1995. The article 
reporting on this document notes that the original is classified SECRET. 
As usual, there is no coverage of this matter in the other major 
newspapers. The text follows.

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                                 SECRET

The accord, to be offered today in Geneva talks as a legal statement 
amending the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, aims at clarifying 
missile defenses permitted under the treaty:

+ Ballistic target missiles, against which theater missile defense [TMD] 
systems are tested, will have a maximum range of no more than 3,500 
kilometers and a maximum flight velocity of no more than 5 kilometers per 
second.

+ All TMD systems with a demonstrated interceptor velocity of 3 
kilometers per second or less and tested as above, are compliant with the 
ABM Treaty.

+ The sides will implement, on a reciprocal basis, the following 
confidence-building measures regarding TMD systems and components to be 
agreed upon by the sides:

1 - Advance notification of launches of TMD interceptor missiles 
involving a ballistic missile target missile, including a test date 
launch window and test location.

2 - Visits for the purpose of observing TMD tests.

3 - The exchange of information on TMD systems, components and programs, 
including information regarding: programmatic status and schedules; 
descriptions of systems and component characteristics and capabilities; 
descriptions of operating concepts for TMD systems, including those being 
developed or deployed;and, general descriptions of the numbers of each 
type of TMD system being developed or deployed.

4 - Notification of all garrison areas for TMD systems within its 
national territory, including homeport locations for naval TMD and 
garrison military installations for other TMD.

5 - Annual notification of routine deployment areas for TMD systems, 
including areas outside the national territory.

6 - Assurances by each side that it will not deploy TMD systems in 
numbers and locations that could pose a realistic threat to the strategic 
nuclear force of another side.

7 - Provision by each side of an annual assessment of perceived theater 
ballistic missile threats and description of how the scale of its TMD 
deployment is consistent with such threats.

8 - Consultation if a side expresses a security concern regarding unusual 
military activities of another side regarding its TMD systems, with a 
view to resolving any concern related thereto.

                                 SECRET

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-- 
John Pike
Federation of American Scientists  http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/
CyberStrategy Project              http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/cp/
Intelligence Reform Project        http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/irp/
Military Analysis Network          http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/man/
Space Policy Project               http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/spp/