Russia will renew the agreement with the US plutonium subject to the lifting of sanctions
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3 October 16:18 update date: October 3, 16:51 the UTC + 3The second condition - the refusal of the United States from the "Magnitsky Act"
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MOSCOW, October 3rd. / TASS /. Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on the suspension of the agreement with the US Plutonium Disposition. This information is placed in
the base of the lower chamber of data .
"Suspend the agreement on plutonium disposition, grade plutonium designated as No Longer Required for Defense Purposes and Related Cooperation in this area ..." - says in the document.
It also stipulates that "the decision on renewal of the agreement and its protocols made by the President of the Russian Federation", their actions can be resumed at a number of US action.
Moscow may renew the agreement with canceling Washington "Magnitsky Act", the abolition of all anti-Russian sanctions and compensation for them, as well as reducing the US military infrastructure of NATO countries.
renewal terms
"Agreement Action and protocols to the agreement may be renewed after removal of the United States reasons that led to a radical change in the circumstances that existed at the date of entry into force of the Agreement and the Protocol to the Agreement", - stated in the second article of the bill.
In particular, we are talking about "military infrastructure of the reduction and the number of US military contingent stationed in the territories of the countries - members of NATO, joined NATO after 1 September 2000, to a level at which they were on the date of the Agreement and the Protocol to the Agreement enters into force ".
The second condition - the United States, the rejection of a hostile policy towards the Russian Federation, which should be expressed "in the cancellation of the US 2012 Act, the (Sergei Magnitsky law) and directed against Russia US law provisions in 2014 to support the freedom of Ukraine", "in the abolition of all sanctions imposed the United States on certain subjects of the Russian Federation, Russian individuals and legal entities "as well as" compensation for the damage suffered by the Russian Federation as a result of the imposition of sanctions ... including losses from the introduction of forced kontrsanktsy against the United States. "
The third condition - "a clear plan view of the US plutonium disposition irreversible covered by the agreement," said the text.
The radical change in the situation
As stated in the explanatory note, "the period after the entry into force of the Agreement and the Protocols to the US it took a number of steps leading to a radical change in the situation in the area of strategic stability." "Under the pretext of the crisis in Ukraine, there is buildup of the US military presence in Eastern Europe, including in the states, taken into NATO after 2000 - the year of the conclusion of the Agreement", - emphasized in the accompanying documents. So, in 2015, six new advanced command and control points are located in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Estonia. Their main task - in the case of appropriate action to ensure rapid transfer of large military contingents of NATO into Eastern Europe.
In addition, units of US armed forces entered the territory of the Baltic states, increased the number based on their airfields NATO aircraft. In Ukraine, the instructors from the US fighters conduct training organization banned in Russia "Right Sector", is listed in the explanatory note.
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It also indicates that in addition to actions aimed at changing the military-strategic balance, the United States shall take measures to loosening of the Russian economy and the violation of the rights of Russian citizens. "In particular, in 2012 the United States adopted the so-called law of Magnitsky, according to which Washington stood open on the protection of economic crime in Russia, and in 2014 - the law on support of freedom of Ukraine, shall be no interference in the internal affairs of our country. in addition, in 2014 the US imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation, some of its territories, businesses and individuals ", - stated in the materials.
"Since the taken actions of the US led to a radical change in the circumstances that existed at the conclusion of the agreement and its protocols, the suspension of the agreement is a response by the Russian Federation and is not contrary to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969. In this case, the plutonium covered by the provisions of the Agreement, it remains outside the nuclear weapons activities, which demonstrates the commitment of Russia exchange rate on the limitation of nuclear weapons ", - stated in the explanatory memorandum.
The developers of the bill also point out that "in the last time the United States are attempting to review prescribed in the Protocol of 13 April 2010 for plutonium disposition strategy, and change the way of its utilization." "At the same time the US side plans to dispose of plutonium by his burial, rather than by irradiation, as established by the Protocols Russian experts even in the preparation of the agreement objected to this approach, as in this case does not provide the irreversibility of disposal.", - Stated in the accompanying documents .
THE AGREEMENT WITH THE US PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION
Agreement with the US was signed on August 29, 2000. It provided the way of surplus plutonium disposition in Russia and the United States, in particular through the production of it mixed oxide fuel used in nuclear power reactors, the translation into forms unusable for the creation of weapons, as well as burial. It was assumed that each of the parties will proceed to the elimination of "declassified" plutonium stocks in the amount of 34 tons. Russia, in particular, recycles weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants.
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