UNCLASSIFIED ANNEX TO THE STATEMENT BY THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE TO THE JOINT COMPLIANCE AND INSPECTION COMMISSION AT THE CLOSING PLENARY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST SESSION, MARCH 8, 2000
Coordinated Statement on the Nenoksa Space Launch Facility
The United States of America accepts the revised site diagram for the Nenoksa SLBM Test Range dated December 5, 1994. The United States of America understands that the Russian Federation will allow inspectors of the United States of America a one-time entry onto the territory removed from the area of the Nenoksa SLBM Test Range and declared as the Nenoksa Space Launch Facility, as part of the next data update inspection at the Nenoksa SLBM Test Range.
Coordinated Statement on Changes in the Function of a Facility
The United States of America understands that the provisions of JCIC Joint Statement Number 17 on Changes in the Functions of Facilities apply only to a change in the function of an entire facility. Joint Statement Number 17 does not provide for a change in the function of a portion of a facility or for a change in the boundaries of a facility. A change in the function of a portion of a facility would be accomplished by using the provisions of either paragraph 19 or paragraph 20 of Annex J to the Memorandum of Understanding to exclude that portion from within the boundary of the site diagram of the old facility and by declaring, either prior to or coincident with such exclusion, that such excluded portion of the old facility is a new facility or incorporated into another existing facility.
Coordinated Statement on Consultations Related to Declaring Space Launch Facilities Outside National Territory
The United States of America, noting that the Parties to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms of July 31, 1991, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty, share a common commitment to promoting effective verification of Treaty obligations and to ensuring non-proliferation of ballistic missile technology, intends to engage in consultations with other Parties to the Treaty within the framework of the JCIC or through diplomatic channels at least 120 days prior to providing a notification containing a declaration of the existence of a new space launch facility outside its national territory. The objective of these consultations will be to inform the other Parties in advance concerning such notifications.
The United States of America intends to provide to the other Parties during the course of such consultations information on the name and location of the space launch facility being declared, including a geographic reference point or points, not to exceed four, for each such space launch facility. Geographic coordinates will be specified using the criteria of paragraph 1 of Annex J to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the Data Base Relating to the Treaty.
The United States of America also intends to provide information on the planned date of declaration of the facility, the expected duration of its use, and the type or types of ICBMs or SLBMs used to deliver objects into the upper atmosphere or space, including space launch vehicles that incorporate the first stages of ICBMs or SLBMs, hereinafter referred to as space launch vehicles, that are planned to be moved to that space launch facility.
The United States of America acknowledges that there is no requirement under the Treaty to agree in advance within the framework of the JCIC or through diplomatic channels on plans pertaining to the declaration of a space launch facility outside its national territory. Such consultations will not affect the Party’s right to declare space launch facilities in accordance with the Treaty, or in anyway impede legitimate activities in rendering commercial space launch services.
The United States of America intends to locate space launch vehicles, launchers, launch canisters and support equipment, as well as the remains of eliminated launch canisters, within five kilometers of a geographic reference point specified above, or, if located further than this distance from any geographic reference point, provide the geographic coordinates for such items specified in minutes of latitude and longitude.
The United States of America, pursuant to Joint Statement Number 21, intends, if it declares a space launch facility outside it national territory, to take all appropriate measures, including reaching agreement with the government of the State on whose territory the space launch facility being declared will be located, to retain ownership and control of its space launch vehicles, as well as their launchers, support equipment, and launch canisters, while they are in transit and while they are located at that space launch facility. The United States of America also intends to ensure that space launch vehicles, their launchers and support equipment are operated by its personnel at that space launch facility.