>Американский же ответ на американское «из России с наглостью» https://vif2ne.org/nvk/forum/archive/43/43172
>Более эмоционально выдержанная и корректная статья.
>По моему пошел процесс, что американцы начинают склоняться к компромиссам (переходить от угроз к переговорам и это радует :)
Якобы пришло понимание у американской стороны и компромисс с российской? :)
Russia Pledges Not to Sell Arms to Iran
By REUTERS
RUSSELS, Dec. 6 - Russia has assured the United States that it will not sell
offensive weapons to Iran despite last month's decision by Moscow to resume
arms transfers to Tehran, American defense officials said today.
The officials spoke with reporters after a 45-minute meeting between the
Russian defense minister, Igor Sergeyev, and Defense Secretary William S.
Cohen at NATO headquarters here.
Mr. Sergeyev said "they would sell only defensive weapons," a United States
official told reporters at a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels.
"Most of these sales would be to service and maintain old Soviet equipment,"
the official added.
The exchange occurred when Mr. Cohen reiterated American concern about
Moscow's recent decision, effective last week, to withdraw from a 1995 pact
not to sell conventional arms to Iran, which the United States says is
trying to develop nuclear arms and supports terrorist groups.
State Department officials went to Moscow this week to press Washington's
concerns over the matter and to make sure that any new transfers to Iran do
not include technology that might improve Tehran's Sahab-3 missile, now in
development with a range of about 1,000 miles.
Moscow is prevented by other agreements from selling nuclear, chemical or
biological arms and technology to Iran, which the United States says has an
active nuclear arms program.
Washington has warned that it would consider sanctions against Russian
companies or the government if sales of advanced conventional technology
took place.
The Russians "have already pledged not to sell any equipment or expertise
which would contribute to Iran's nuclear weapons program," another U.S.
defense official said today.
Mr. Sergeyev told reporters on Tuesday that Moscow would stick with its
international obligations on transfers to Iran.
But Russia wants to make money from a lucrative market at a time of high oil
prices and appears to be taking advantage of the delay in determining
President Bill Clinton's successor in the White House.
