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10STATE14963 | 2010-02-19 03:22:00 | SECRET | Secretary of State |
1. (S) Guidance: Ref A instructed Delegation to draft Protocol and Annex language on telemetry for Washington review prior to tabling with the Russian delegation. Washington has reviewed the Delegation's draft texts and appreciates the Delegation's efforts. After careful consideration, Washington has decided to strictly pursue the approach using the language agreed during the General Jones and Admiral Mullen meetings with General Makarov in Moscow in January. Therefore, Delegation is authorized to provide the U.S.-proposed Protocol text in paragraph 2 below to the Russian delegation. The Protocol language implements what the U.S. and Russia agreed to in Moscow in January for the Protocol, which is in addition to the telemetry language in the Treaty text that has already been agreed. The Delegation is also authorized to table and begin negotiation of the telemetry annex language in paragraph 3 as the United States proposal for the additional details on the telemetry exchange that will need to be agreed in an annex before the Treaty can be ratified and enter into force. Delegation may replace " launch" with "flight test" in the Protocol if Russia can be persuaded to accept the change. In tabling and working the annex, Delegation should emphasize to the Russians that although the United States is willing to begin the negotiation of the annex now, many of its technical details are complex and will require time to negotiate. Delegation should further emphasize that completion of the telemetry annex is not required before signature of the Treaty and Protocol. Delegation should not permit negotiation of the telemetry annex to delay the completion of the Treaty and Protocol for signature. 2. (S) Begin text: Draft U.S. Proposal on Part Seven of the Treaty Protocol on Telemetry 1. From the entry into force of the Treaty, the Parties shall exchange telemetric information, on a parity basis, on no more than five launches per year of ICBMs and SLBMs. 2. The exchange of telemetric information shall be carried out for an equal number of launches of ICBMs and SLBMs conducted by the sides, and in an agreed amount. 3. On an annual basis, the sides shall review the conditions and method of further telemetric information exchange on launches of ICBMs and SLBMs within the framework of the Bilateral Consultative Commission. Additional details on the telemetry exchange are contained in the Annex on Telemetry Exchange Procedures. End text. 3. (S) Begin text: Draft U.S. Proposal Annex on Telemetry Exchange Procedures 1. The Bilateral Consultative Commission shall meet within 65 days after entry into force of the Treaty to discuss exchange of telemetric information on flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs planned for that year. Thereafter, the Bilateral Consultative Commission shall meet within the first 65 days of each calendar year to discuss exchange of telemetric information on flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs planned for that year, and to review the conditions and methods of further telemetric information exchange on flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs. 2. At each such meeting, the Parties will discuss selection of launches on which telemetric information will be exchanged to ensure that parity of the exchange is maintained. 3. Telemetric information shall be exchanged on five flight tests each year, unless one of the Parties launches fewer than five ICBMs and SLBMs in that year. The number of flight tests for which telemetric information shall be exchanged in the remainder of the year in which the Treaty enters into force will be determined on a proportional basis. Telemetric information shall be exchanged on the same total number of flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs for each Party each year. 4. For each launch for which telemetric information is exchanged, the Parties shall provide recording media and interpretive data for all telemetric information that originates during the flight test from the missile stages and, if so equipped, a self-contained dispensing mechanism. 5. For each launch for which telemetric information is exchanged, no less than 24 hours in advance of any flight test of an ICBM or SLBM, including a prototype ICBM or SLBM, the Party conducting the flight test shall notify the other Party of all frequencies and associated modulation methods to be used to broadcast telemetric information during the flight test. 6. For each launch for which telemetric information is exchanged, the testing Party shall not engage in activities to deny the monitoring Party access to the telemetry signal broadcast from the stages and, if so equipped, the self-contained dispensing mechanism, through use of jamming, narrow directional beaming, or encapsulation. If encryption methods are used, the means to obtain the decrypted data shall be provided to the monitoring Party. 7. For each flight test for which telemetric information is provided, the testing Party shall provide the monitoring Party the following: (a) recording media containing all recorded telemetric information originating from the stages and self-contained dispensing mechanism, if so equipped, irrespective of broadcast or recovery method; (b) the information necessary to play back the telemetric information from the recording media; and (c) interpretive data necessary to permit the monitoring Party to extract independently the full representation of each data element contained in the telemetric information described in subparagraph (a), including information to decrypt the telemetric information if encrypted. 8. If the monitoring Party is unable to play back the telemetric information or extract the full representations described in Paragraphs 7(b) and 7(c), it shall notify the testing Party. The testing Party shall provide additional explanations or, as necessary, new copies of the recording media describe in Paragraph 7(a) to assist the monitoring Party in extracting these representations. 9. Unless otherwise agreed or previously demonstrated, each Party shall carry out an initial demonstration of the recording media and playback equipment required to play back the telemetric information, and shall provide to the other Party the required playback equipment or the information necessary to facilitate its purchase. End text. End guidance. CLINTON |