UNCLASSIFIED ATTACHMENT UNILATERAL PLENARY STATEMENT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONCERNING REENTRY VEHICLE INSPECTIONS AND COOPERATIVE MEASURES FOR SS-25 ICBMS BASED AT DROVYANAYA AND YOSHKAR-OLA, AUGUST 2, 2000
Taking into account the temporary fiscal constraints that have delayed the completion of fixed structures at Drovyanaya Restricted Area Number 2 (RA-2) and Yoshkar-Ola Restricted Area Number 4 (RA-4), the United States, as a matter of policy, will utilize, as a practical measure during this temporary situation, the procedures proposed by the Russian Federation in Variant II of its non-paper of June 28, 1999, to provide access for reentry vehicle inspections (RVOSIs) and to apply cooperative measures to the nine deployed road-mobile launchers and their associated SS-25 ICBMs at the Drovyanaya ICBM Base for Road-Mobile Launchers of ICBMs and the nine deployed road-mobile launchers and their associated SS-25 ICBMs at the Yoshkar-Ola ICBM Base for Road-Mobile Launchers of ICBMs, that are currently declared to be at such restricted areas (RAs) pursuant to Article VI of the Treaty but are temporarily housed in the maintenance facilities for those ICBM bases.
During the period in which this practical measure is used, any RVOSI or cooperative measures requested for the relevant portion of one of these maintenance facilities will also be applied, simultaneously, to any fixed structures existing of under construction in the corresponding RA, the boundaries of which are defined in the January 1, 1999, site diagrams for those RAs.
Consistent with the temporary nature of this practical arrangement, the United States of America intends to conduct a review within the framework of the JCIC of the progress made toward construction of fixed structures at these two RAs approximately two years from this date. Based on the results of that review, the United States would assess the suitability of continuing this arrangement.
The United States of America notes that that practical measure does not set a precedent for addressing its concerns regarding any future activities. Anyextension by the Russian Federation of the practice of temporarily housing road-mobile launchers at locations other than their declared RAs for other RAs or other deployed mobile ICBMs, or to allow less than the full exercise of the proposed procedures for the inspection and cooperative measures for these ICBMs would cause the United States of America to cease implementing this practical measure.