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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Russian
President Vladimir Putin makes his first
visit to the White House on Tuesday,
President Bush hopes he can overcome
Russian objections to his missile defense
plans with promises of new cuts in the U.S.
nuclear arsenal.
What the two presidents can accomplish
the next day at Bush’s Texas ranch — over a
chuck-wagon picnic with crooning cowboys
— is less tangible, but perhaps more impor
tant to Bush’s war on terrorism and his
broader agenda for U.S.-Russia relations.
As national security adviser Condoleezza
Rice put it. Bush and Putin are steadily build
ing “a relationship that is very, very good,
and also normal,” where issues can be
addressed without the high-stakes negotia
tions that were the hallmark of the Soviet era.
On Bush’s wish list for his three days
with Putin are several issues, both long-
range and immediate, that could benefit
from the personal friendship and trust that
Bush hopes to cultivate in a mix of formal
White House talks and down-home hospital
ity at his 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas:
—Unflinching Russian support in the
U.S.-led war against Osama bin Laden, his
al-Qaida terrorist network and its allies in
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban.
Putin has called the terrorists behind the
Sept. 11 attacks a common enemy and vowed
to help the United States “fight this evil.”
Putin said in a weekend interview that
Russia has supplied the United States with
air corridors and “very valuable intelli
gence information,” as well as “tens of
millions dollars worth of military-technical
assistance” to Afghan opposition forces
fighting the Taliban.
Andrew Kuchins, Russia expert at the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, warned that “if the United States
wanted to take the military efforts outside
Afghanistan, especially Iraq or Iran, our
nascent partnership with Russia is going to
get pretty complicated pretty fast.” There
are also signs that a U.S.-Russia squabble
over the political configuration of any post-
Taliban Afghanistan could be in the offing.
—A deal to begin reducing warheads on
each side.
Bush will present to Putin the results of a
nuclear strategy review by the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff and announce plans to send
two-thirds of America’s stockpiled nuclear
warheads to the scrap heap.
The idea is that, if the American arsenal
fell below 2,000 — to roughly match the
1,500 that would be left in Russia’s stock
pile under Putin’s cost-savings plans — then
the Russians might rest easy that any
American missile shield is not meant as a
weapon against Russia. Each side currently
has about 6,000 warheads.
—Further softening of Russian opposi
tion to U.S. missile defense.
Whether it happens this week or
down the road, experts monitoring
Russia talks expect Bush and Putin to si
some sort of executive agreement
1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty coi
interpreted to permit testing of a
protect the United States and its
missiles launched by Iraq, North Kd
other rogue states. Such anagi
forestall for years the thorny question a
to do w ith the treaty when itbumpsup,
actual deployment of a U.S. missile
Putin said in the interview thtihe.
optimistic a compromise could be founi
“We know the president’s viei
strategic offensive weapons can andra
reduced. This is a compromise in the
direction,” Putin said.
Bush will forge ahead with oni
agreement.
—Tight control over the nudes
other weapons material lying aroundEa
some 40.000 tons of chemical weajwsi
enough plutonium and uraniumforai
mated tens of thousands of nuclearba
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nuclear weaponry, material or exp
leaked out of the country, it wnM
bonanza for state or terrorist organi
that might do us harm," said
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rotary of State for South Asian affain
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