Even if these countries do join, they can violate the treaty--as Iraq and North Korea have done with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said in Washington that the Pentagon planned to begin construction next April for missile defence tests that could violate the treaty.
Now that all the cards are on the table, if France is allowed to violate the treaty, no one would comply and the Euro currency would be doomed.
President Clinton may attempt to have it both ways: decide this year in favour of deploying a national missile defence, but declare that construction next year does not violate the treaty.
For one thing, this action would violate the Treaty's environmental obligations to protect marine life and its habitats, obligations whose sweep makes those of the Kyoto Treaty seem modest by comparison.
Thus, trying to fix software patents might cause us to violate our international treaty obligations.
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Russia, a vehement critic of American missile-defence plans, says these would violate the ABM treaty.
Presumably they've checked with the lawyers to make sure that this does not violate the Maastricht Treaty, which forbids governments from using the central bank to finance any of their deficits.
Now, in the aftermath of the ministerial discussions in the Tetons, the USSR is demanding that a side agreement be reached that would permit the Soviet Union to abandon the treaty reducing strategic arms should the United States choose to withdraw from or to violate the 1972 ABM Treaty in order to deploy significant defenses.
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Russia's leadership, in particular, has said that going ahead with such a missile program would violate a 1972 ballistic missile treaty and plunge the United States and Russia once again into an expensive, dangerous arms race.
But building the system would violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, and Moscow has not only refused to negotiate a loophole for Washington, but has warned that violating the treaty will void all subsequent arms control agreements and precipitate a new arms race.
Moscow has said a move towards a missile defence strategy would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
The Russian Defense Ministry maintains that the U.S. missile shield program would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty signed by Russia and the United States.
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Their case is that the park could violate the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The Soviet Union under Gorbachev has continued to violate major arms control agreements, including the ABM Treaty, and other international agreements such as the Helsinki accords.
By giving us new tools for verification, enabling us to tap a global network for intelligence and information, and strengthening our own law enforcement, the treaty will make it easier for us to prevent to punish those who seek to violate its rules.
In addition, Russia continues to violate its international arms control obligations, including -- but not limited to -- the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the INF Treaty, the START I Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and various chemical weapons conventions.
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