As a priority, we intend to successfully implement the New START Treaty, and to continue our discussions on strategic stability.
For reasons of strategic stability, sound program management, fiscal responsibility, allied relations and procurement reform, the Congress should reject the proposed suspension of Trident II production in FY1990.
"I want to be candid with you: If these talks fail, I'll do what is right for the security of millions of Americans and for global strategic stability, " he said.
"That position is dictated by the best interests of trying to support strategic stability, international and national security and prevent a new arms race, " Sergeyev was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
"This would simply be the continuation of a ballistic missile early warning partnership we have shared with the U.S. over 30 years, a partnership which makes a significant contribution to global strategic stability, " said a spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
Most importantly, he withdrew the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an archaic Cold War document that some (notably, Senator John Kerry ) foolishly considered to be the "cornerstone of strategic stability" even a decade after the other party - the Soviet Union - had ceased to exist.
Lead-magnesium-niobate transducers in broadband sonars are likely to make the seas perfectly transparent, eliminating for the first time the presumed invulnerability of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the anchor of strategic nuclear stability.
"It is not favourable to global strategic balance and stability, " a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing said following the weekend tests.
This reflects the strategic vision to maintain stability in the Grand Sahara and in the Sahel region and to enhance Maghreb integration.
However, Microsoft is said to be interested, as are a number of other companies, attracted by Malaysia's high growth, low cost, political stability and strategic location.
"The new agreement will mutually enhance the security of the parties and predictability and stability in strategic offensive forces, and will include effective verification measures drawn from the experience of the parties in implementing the START Treaty, " the statement said.
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But America's moral responsibility to the people of Iraq, and its own interest in maintaining stability in this strategic corner of the Middle East, have not disappeared with the departure of Mr Bush.
Among them, lifting people out of poverty, promoting democracy and economic stability worldwide, and bolstering strategic alliances.
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Europe wants Turkey to become more modern, democratic and stable because Turkey has strategic importance as "an anchor of stability and a benchmark of democracy for the wider Muslim world", he says.
And it is also a strategic European interest, and it is a necessary requirement for global security and stability.
Moreover, critical US national security interests, such as the stability of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, Egypt's 35-year strategic alignment with America following Sadat's pivot away from the Soviet Union, and the fate of the Arabian Peninsula's oil-and gas-producing regimes, justifiably weigh in the balance for Washington's decision-makers, and the West as a whole.
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The big powers that are eager to promote stability will also have to join in the balancing act, trying to achieve harmony between strategic interests, the aspirations of the peoples concerned and the means available.
The oil, competition with Russia for influence in the former Soviet Union, plus Azerbaijan's strategic location, might suggest that America and the European Union should be content with Mr Aliev and the stability he seems to offer.
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