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SUBJECT: START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA (SFO-GVA-II):
(S) RUSSIAN-PROPOSED JOINT STATEMENT ON MISSILE DEFENSE
ISSUES

Classified By: A/S Rose E. Gottemoeller, United States
START Negotiator. Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d).


1. (U) This is SFO-GVA-II-007.


2. (S) The text at paragraph 3 is the official translation
of a Russian-proposed Joint Statement on Missile Defense
Issues. The Russian-proposed Joint Statement was provided to
A/S Gottemoeller in a meeting at the U.S. Mission in Geneva
on June 24, 2009, by Ambassador Anatoly Antonov, Head of the
Russian Delegation and Head of the Treaty and Legal
Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation.


3. (S) Begin text:

Official Translation

Joint Statement
by Dimitriy A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation,
and
Barack Obama, President of the United States of America,
on Missile Defense Issues

In accordance with the understanding reached at the
meeting in London on April 1, 2009, and taking into account
the U.S. decision to suspend implementation of its plans to
deploy the third global missile defense site in Europe,
Russia and the U.S. will continue discussing new
possibilities for establishing equitable international
cooperation in responding to likely missile threats. Our
countries are intensifying their search for optimum ways of
strengthening strategic relations on the basis of mutual
respect and consideration of each other's interests.

We have instructed our experts to work together to
analyze the missile challenges of the 21st century and to
prepare appropriate recommendations, giving priority to the
use of political and diplomatic methods. At the same time
there will be a joint review of the technical means at our
disposal that allow us to monitor the development of missile
programs around the world. Our experts are intensifying the
dialogue on establishing the Joint Data Exchange Center,
which is to become the basis for a multilateral
missile-launch notification regime.

The Russian Federation and the United States of America
reaffirm their willingness to engage in equitable and
mutually beneficial cooperation with all interested countries
that share their assessments of the danger of global missile
proliferation. We call upon all countries having a missile
potential to refrain from steps that could lead to the
emergence of new dividing lines between nations and, as a
result, undermine regional and global stability.

End text.


4. (U) Gottemoeller sends.
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