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Vladivostok.
United States tactical nuclear forces in Europe and the nuclear
forces of third parties are excluded from the terms agreed at
The British Government welcomes the Vladivostok
agreement as an important stop towards further limitation of
strategic arms and as opening the way to the negotiation of
reductions in strategic force levels. Detailed negotiations
between the United States and Soviet Governments resumed in Geneva
on 31 January 1975. Together with her NATO Allice, the United Kingdom
is kept informed of progress in SALT through close consultations
with the United States in the North Atlanic Council.
33. The US/USSR summit in Moscow in June and July 1974 also
produced significant agreements. A protocol to the Treaty on
Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems was signed, reducing to one the
number of sites in each of the two countries where euch systems
may be deployed. And a limit of 150 kilotons, to be effective
from 31 March 1976, was agreed as the maximum yield of
underground nuclear weapons testa. (This agreement does not
apply to underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes,
which are to be governed by another agreement to bo negotiated
as soon as possible).
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