Senior US Democratic Senator Wary of Dropping ABM TreatyCarl Levin, soon-to-be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee of the United States, said Thursday that he is wary of any move by President George Bush to abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile (AMB) treaty to build a missile defense system."The president said he's going to unilaterally deploy on the one hand. On the other hand, he said that he's going to consult with our allies, indeed with Russia and with China, ... before he presumably makes a decision," Levin told reporters in his office. "So I no longer know where the administration is on that issue, whether or not they have decided unilaterally to break out of that treaty," said the senator of the Democratic Party. On May 1, Bush said the United States must move beyond the constraints of the 1972 ABM Treaty with Russia. "We need a new framework that allows us to build missile defenses to counter the different threats of today's world," Bush claimed. |
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