States strategic forces and on the ability of United States strategic forces to achieve required damage expectancies against Soviet targets) of any expansion of Soviet military capabilities undertaken in response to a United States decision to abandon compliance with existing strategic offensive arms agreements.

(2) The additional cost to the United States, above currently projected military expenditures for those periods for which such budget projections are available, of research, development, production, deployment, and annual operations and support for any additional strategic forces required to counter any expansion in Soviet military capabilities undertaken in response to a United States decision to abandon compliance with existing strategic offensive arms agreements.

(3) Under average annual real growth projections in defense spending of 0 percent, 1 percent, 2 percent, and 3 percent, the percent of the annual defense budget in each year between fiscal year 1987 and fiscal year 1996 which would be consumed by increased United States strategic forces needed to counter the Soviet force expansions.

(4) The military effect on United States national security of the diversion of the funds identified under paragraph (2) away from nonstrategic defense programs and to strategic programs to counter expanded Soviet strategic capabilities, including the military effect of such a diversion on the ability of United States conventional forces to meet the specific non-nuclear defense commitments of the United States as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and under the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with Japan.

(5) The military implications for the United States of Soviet violations of offensive arms control agreements that have been determined.

(c) REPORT REQUIREMENTS. (1) The Chairman shall

(A) include in the report required under subsection (a) the individual views of the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and

(B) submit such report in both classified and unclassified form.

(2) The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than December 19, 1986.

(e) RESTRICTION ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS. If the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fails to submit the report required by subsection (a) before December 20, 1986, no funds may be obligated or expended, directly or indirectly, on or after such date by the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for any study or analysis to be conducted by a civilian contractor until such report is received by Congress.

SEC. 1004. SENSE OF CONGRESS EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR A CENTRAL ROLE FOR NUCLEAR RISK REDUCTION CENTERS

(a) CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENTS.-The Congress

(1) has expressed its prior support for the establishment of nuclear risk reduction centers; and

(2) supports the President's willingness to negotiate an agreement with the Soviet Union to establish such centers in each nation.

(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that if an agreement on nuclear risk reduction centers is signed, the United States center should— (1) be assigned the responsibility to serve as the center of activity for United States risk reduction activities under the agreement; and

(2) make recommendations to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs regarding additional risk reduction arrangements that might be proposed to the Soviet Union.

199.

Communique of the Warsaw Pact Committee of
Foreign Ministers, October 15, 19861

On October 14-15 a meeting took place in Bucharest of the committee of foreign affairs ministers of the states participant in the Warsaw Treaty of friendship, collaboration and mutual assistance.

The meeting was attended by: M. Ivanov, first deputy minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, B. Chnoupek, minister of foreign affairs of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, O. Fischer, minister of foreign affairs of the German Democratic Republic, M. Orzechowski, minister of foreign affairs of the Polish People's Republic, Ioan Totu, minister of foreign affairs of the Socialist Republic of Romania, P. Varkonyi, minister of foreign affairs of the Hungarian People's Republic, E.A. Shevardnadze, minister of foreign affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The ministers exchanged views and information on the situation in Europe and in the world, paying utmost attention to the problems of halting the arms race and of disarmament, nuclear disarmament above all, to the efforts of the Warsaw Treaty participant states for the achievement of the program proposed in the Budapest Appeal of Reduction of Armed Forces and Conventional Weapons in Europe, to the tasks of improving the situation in the world, including the international economic relations.

1. The participants in the meeting highlighted that the evolution of events in Europe and in the world confirmed the appreciations and conclusions articulated at the meeting of last June of the Political Consultative Committee. Worry was expressed about the grave situation in the world and the war danger resulting from the intensification of the arms race, nuclear above all, of the U.S. and NATO actions, that refuse to embark upon the path of halting the arms race, preventing its extension to the outer space and ceasing the nuclear tests.

The fundamental issue of our age is the defense of peace, the halting of the arms race, nuclear above all, the achievement of disarmament, the elimination of the danger of a nuclear catastrophe.

E.A. Shevardnadze, minister of foreign affairs of the USSR, informed the meeting participants about the results of the meeting held, upon the Soviet Union's initiative, at Reykjavik, between M.S. Gorbachev, general secretary of the CC of the CPSU, and R. Reagan, U.S. President. The states represented at the meeting expressed their support to the USSR stand at the meeting, to the Soviet

1 Moscow TASS International Service in Russian, October 15, 1986; FBIS Daily Report, October 16, 1986, vol. III, pp. BB1-BB7.

proposals of wide scope and perspective regarding the radical reduction of offensive strategic weapons, the liquidation of the American and Soviet mediumrange missiles in Europe, in conditions of a concomitant reduction of such missiles in Asia, the freezing of the missiles having a range shorter than 1,000 km, the consolidation of the provisions in the treaty on the limitation of the AntiBallistic Defence Systems, and the complete and definitive banning of nuclear tests. Support was expressed to the Soviet Union's request for the enforcement of a most rigorous control of the package of measures proposed. There should be a guarantee that in the process of liquidation of the nuclear weapons neither party will try to get military superiority over the other. The implementation of those proposals would allow for the achievement in a short lapse of time of a radical change for the better in international relations, for a change in all domains of the struggle for disarmament, for the removal of the nuclear war danger and a passage to a nuclear weapon-free world.

Regret was expressed at these proposals not being accepted.

The Warsaw Treaty participant states call on the U.S. and the other NATO countries to take account of the whole gravity of the present situation in the world and approach in a constructive, realistic, and responsible manner the Soviet Union's proposals that keep being the major theme of the Soviet-American dialogue.

The participants in the meeting expressed their countries' determination to continue the dialogue, the active struggle for halting the nuclear arms race, for the creation of a comprehensive system of international security and peace.

Resolute and responsible actions are required from all states, big or small, irrespective of social system, to put an end to the arms race on the earth, prevent its extension to the outer space, for a passage to concrete measures of disarmament and reduction of military expenditures, so as to ensure for all peoples lasting security and conditions of peace for their socioeconomic development.

The ministers noted that recently positive tendencies have been making their way through in the development of the international situation, although not without difficulty. The proposals advanced by the allied socialist states, which show the concrete and real way in eliminating the nuclear threat and ensuring general security, are ever more backed worldwide.

The Warsaw Treaty states are highly appreciative of the results of the first stage of the Stockholm conference. The unanimous accords achieved there are of great importance for the building of confidence and fulfill the aspirations of the peoples in Europe and throughout the world. The spirit of collaboration, realism, and understanding that prevailed at the conference led to an agreement on substantial confidence- and security-building measures. This proves that, when political will is shown and efforts are made by all the states concerned, a solution can be given to major security-related questions. The Stockholm Accord is a good start for negotiations on conventional arms and troops reduction in Europe and, equally, for confidence-building measures, inclusive of limitation of military activities.3

2 For the text of the Treaty, see Documents on Disarmament, 1972, pp. 197–201. 3 For the Stockholm accord, see Document 170.

The ministers welcomed the conclusion of a convention on information and aid-granting in cases of nuclear accidents, and called for the expansion of collaboration with a view to creating an international system for the highly safe use and development of nuclear energy.

Firmly declaring for nuclear disarmament, the states represented to the meeting attach special importance to implementing the program proposed by the Soviet Union regarding the total elimination everywhere of nuclear weapons and of the other types of weapons of mass destruction till the end of this century. The ministers underlined the pressing need to stop any nuclear test. The Soviet Union's decision was welcomed regarding the procrastination of the unilateral moratorium on the cessation of nuclear tests till the end of this year, and the U.S.A. as well as the other nuclear-weapon states were called upon to cease all nuclear tests and act for the soonest possible conclusion of an accord totally banning them.

Militating for a comprehensive approach to disarmament questions, the states represented to the meeting underscored the importance of the appeal adopted at the Budapest meeting of the Political Consultative Committee for a program of cutting European troops and conventional weapons by 25 per cent until 1990,* to which a proportional reduction of the states' military spending should add. The implementation of like measures would provide appropriate conditions for a further reduction of conventional arms and troops in Europe. The Warsaw Treaty states reassert they are ready to immediately pass on to a practical examination of these proposals, and constructively analyze other similar measures likely to be presented by NATO states, by neutral and nonaligned states, by the other European countries.

An account was read by Hungarian Foreign Minister P. Varkonyi of the activity for the dissemination and presentation of the appeal endorsed by the Budapest meeting of the Political Consultative Committee, and its international echo.

Romanian Foreign Minister Ioan Totu informed the participants in the meeting of the recent decision of the Socialist Republic of Romania to cut its arms, troops and military expenditure by five per cent.

The participants in the meeting underlined the need for the conclusion of specific understandings during the Soviet-American talks on nuclear and space weapons, which should take into account the interests of both sides and of all the other states. Stress was also laid on the special importance of maintaining the agreements and conventions on the limitation of arming and on disarmament, and the U.S.A. was called to rigorously observe the accords on the limitation of strategic offensive arms and the treaty on the limitation of anti missile defence system.

The ministers assess that preparations for the star war and the adherence of other states to it should necessarily stop as well as the elaboration of projects like the European defence initiative, any action for the militarization of space, which

4 Document 104.

5 I.e., the SALT I Interim Agreement, printed in Documents on Disarmament, 1972. pp. 202-204, and the SALT II agreements, ibid., 1979, pp. 189 ff.

enhance the danger of a nuclear war, and reiterated their countries position on the carrying through of a program regarding all the states' practical actions for the peaceful use of outer space as an asset of the whole mankind.

Emphasis was placed on the need to urgently finalize works for the elaboration and conclusion of an international convention which should provide for the banning of chemical weapons, the scrapping of existing stockpiles and the plants manufacturing like weapons. The plans for the production and emplacement in Europe of the highly dangerous binary variant of the chemical weapon are serious obstacles in attaining such a goal.

The necessity was reasserted of dynamizing the works of the Geneva Disarmament Conference of all forms and mechanisms of negotiation on disarmament, so that they should carry on more efficient activity and be not a screen for unhampered furtherance of the arms race.

The states represented to the meeting are determined to further and deepen their political dialogue with the other states with a view to building up confidence and strengthening understanding, reaching palpable disarmament accords, and ensuring peace and call on the U.S.A. and the other NATO countries to give a positive answer to the socialist states' initiatives for the resolution of the major problems of the contemporary world.

The states represented to the meeting are for the creation of a comprehensive system of international security, to confer the military and political, as well as the economic and humanitarian areas. The ministers called for a passage at the United Nations on the basis of an initiative set forth by a number of socialist countries, to the elaboration of a fundamental document to spell out the basic principles of such a system.

The ministers reiterated their states' positions on the need for all the states to strictly observe the principles of national independence and sovereignty, nonrecourse to the use and threat of force, inviolability of frontiers and territorial integrity, peaceful settlement of differences, noninterference in domestic affairs, equality of rights, and the other unanimously acknowledged norms of international relations.

2. The ministers consider that now more than ever before the current situation in Europe calls for practical measures to liquidate military confrontation from the continent.

All efforts should be made for the urgent conclusion of an accord on the elimination of Soviet and American intermediate-range missiles from Europe, which would go down as an important step forward on the road of freeing the continent from nuclear weapons.

A substantial contribution to the cause of freeing Europe from nuclear and chemical weapons would be made by the creation of zones free of such weapons of mass destruction in the Balkans, in central and northern Europe. Support was reiterated for the proposals advanced along that line by the Socialist Republic of Romania and the People's Republic of Bulgaria and, respectively, by the German Democratic Republic and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

The participants in the meeting highlighted their countries' interest in the urgent conclusion at the Vienna talks of an agreement on the reduction of troops and arms in central Europe.