"Russia will have the right to opt out of the treaty if qualitative and quantitative parameters of the U.S. strategic missile defense begin to significantly effect the efficiency of Russian strategic nuclear forces, " Mr. Lavrov told the AP.
This didn't get much play in the U.S., but in March Russia announced that it was entering into what is in effect a strategic alliance with Iran.
"This exercise is being carried out so that we can start to effect some of the strategic changes as a consequence of the Transform review of Barclays business, " he said.
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Strategic initiatives focusing on incentives and promotions will have a positive effect on the community.
But he says you can always accept lower margin at any product at any given time for a strategic reason, but at the background we always know that this halo effect plays.
The effect of this perception is to intensify pressure for expeditious completion of strategic and conventional arms control accords.
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But they do have a direct strategic interest in keeping the next election as tight as possible (leaving aside the baleful effect of the boundary changes on a number of their MPs) because it maximises their chance of a hung parliament in 2015 and leverage over the next government.
The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission and, indeed, the recommendations of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the commander of Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton and the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Thomas D'Agostino.
Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.
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He said the current strategic plan did not take into account of the money needed to provide services for the additional people or their effect on the environment.
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"Adverse news from Indonesia will really affect the image of the region as a whole and have a contagion effect on all the economies, " says Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda, executive director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Center.
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