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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F3533B1D4A7CDF585D5DF658 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Michael W. Posluns, The StillWaters Group, First Nations Relations & Public Policy. Please note new address: mposluns@accglobal.net Phone 416 656-8613 Fax 416 656-2715 36 Lauder Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 3E3. We offer Canadian parliamentary debates available by topics and bills. --------------F3533B1D4A7CDF585D5DF658 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <3717DCE3.FD37495F@accglobal.net> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:59:15 -0700 From: Michael Posluns <MPosluns@accglobal.net> Reply-To: MPosluns@accglobal.net Organization: The StillWaters Group X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fawcett@physics.utoronto.ca, sfp-net@chebucto.ns.ca, renew-j@shamash.org, fnr_pubpol@yorku.ca, "embisrott@cyberus.ca" <embisrott@cyberus.ca>, "R. Reuel Karpov, Ph.D." <karpov@erols.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: Russia, China oppose BMD References: <fc.000f4cb5000000003b9aca00fca1ec0b.7630e0@EDU.YorkU.CA> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please see interlinear commentary below. fawcett@physics.utoronto.ca wrote: > > Russia, China warn of new arms race over U.S. missile defense plans > > AP News Service, April 14 1999 > > MOSCOW (AP): Russia and China on Wednesday warned of a new arms race if > the United States goes ahead with plans to develop a nationwide defense > system against limited missile attack. My aim is to challenge intellectual workers to return to their intellects and to resume their capacities for critical thought. The loss of critical capacity in the intellectual sense has been more or less as complete on one side as on the othr. With what would Russia resume the arms race if, as it is widely reported, Russia is generally bankrupt and has not paid its workers for some very long time and has not been able to maintain its mines in towns where the former Soviet Union had displaced Native peoples? And how much money has the IMF loaned Russia recently with what strings attached? And has the Chinese Premier said any of these things during his Canadian tour this week? > > The U.S. Senate recently approved a bill calling for construction of the > defense system ``as soon as technologically possible.'' The Americans have > grown concerned about the possibility of attack from countries such as > Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Americans have long fantasized such attacks but was there any evidence offered before a committee of the Senate that any of the countries named here had any such capacity? I would have hoped that those who want not to see the cold war resumed would take a wee peak at the Congressional Record to see what has really been said. We know that the news media are no longer news media. Perhaps that imposes on those of us with intellectual pretensions to take up just this very kind of task. > > Russian politicians have been unanimous in assailing the U.S. plan to > develop anti-missile defenses, saying the move would violate the 1972 > Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Moscow strongly opposes U.S. proposals to > amend the treaty to allow for limited missile defenses. Russian and > Chinese military officials and diplomats who met in Moscow to discuss the > situation issued a statement saying the two countries have serious > concerns about the U.S. plans. > And Russian politicians, especially now that they actually have to win elections can be expected to run hard against the U.S. Administration. Just as many provincial candidates in Canada run against current fedral policy. Ever seen a municiapl candidate come out in favour (or against) capital punishment? Ever so safe. ``The fulfillment of these plans would violate the main obligation under > the > ABM treaty,'' said the statement, circulated by the Russian Foreign > Ministry. > Russia and China ``believe that undermining or violating the ABM treaty > would > lead to a whole range of negative consequences: New factors would appear > that would be capable of destabilizing the international situation ... > and create > conditions for the resumption of the arms race,'' the statement said. > I would not trust the Clinton administration to go to the store for milk. I also wouldnot trust the Yeltsin administration to run a corner store. One condones ethnocide in its sphere of influence but opposes it in the other's. The other does much the same. > Russia also contends the creation of a missile defense system would put on > hold any further nuclear weapons reductions. President Boris Yeltsin > recently approved a bill by Russian lawmakers that would make their > approval of the START II arms reduction treaty, which the United States is > anxious to see ratified, dependent on a U.S. commitment to the ABM treaty. > > Copyright 1999 AP News Service. -- Michael W. Posluns, The StillWaters Group, First Nations Relations & Public Policy. Please note new address: mposluns@accglobal.net Phone 416 656-8613 Fax 416 656-2715 36 Lauder Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 3E3. We offer Canadian parliamentary debates available by topics and bills. --------------F3533B1D4A7CDF585D5DF658--
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