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with the Treaty"s provisions. The basic rights and obligations are contained in these two documents. The third tier consists of Technical Annexes to the Protocol.These documents define the Treaty"s terms and stipulate new verification procedures for monitoring compliance with the Treaty. Although the voluminous Protocol has to be studied in great detail, the first impression is that Russian and U.S. negotiators have done a good job and have specified mutual positions to the greatest possible extent in order to avoid any uncertainty.
In conclusion, one can agree that both the United States and Russia have benefited from signing the Treaty, which can serve as an example for other nuclear powers now expected to join Russian-U.S. agreements.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik)
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