US violates nonproliferation, arms control agrmnts — RF FMinistry



07.08.2010, 15.10



MOSCOW, August 7 (Itar-Tass) - The United States commits many and sometimes rather gross violations of the agreements on disarmament and non-proliferation and the international export control regimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its report published on Saturday on "the facts of U.S. breaches of its obligations in the area of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and control over arms".

American companies continue to actively supply various missile-technologies-related products and know-how technologies to foreign countries, about third of which are not members of the Missile Technology Control Regime, including Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, the UAE, Taiwan and others, the document said. Even in these cases, the use of the supplied missiles is not checked on the regular basis, as the American legislation stipulates.

Washington is constantly faced with export control violations by national commercial private structures and defense companies. The U.S. industrial security monitoring service in the first half of 2008 alone detected more than 70 illegitimate export supplies of military and dual-purpose goods and technologies. Most of them were supplied to countries included by Washington in the so-called black list — China, Iran, Syria and Libya, the document noted.

Questions are raised in Moscow in connection with the American bomb and missile supplies to Israel in the last Middle East conflicts. The actions of the United States run counter to the basic provisions of the Wassenaar agreements and the OSCE arms supply principles, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.

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