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SUBJECT: SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) CONVERSION OR ELIMINATION WORKING GROUP 
MEETING, FEBRUARY 1, 2010 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Rose A. Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary, Department 
of State, VCI; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 
 
¶1.  (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-003. 
 
 
 
¶2.  (U) Meeting Date:  February 1, 2010 
 
           Time:  10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 
 
               Place:  U.S. Mission, Geneva 
 
 
 
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SUMMARY 
 
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¶3.  (S) At the Conversion or Elimination (CorE) Working Group 
meeting co-chaired by Mr. Elliott and Colonel Ryzhkov, the sides 
reviewed the U.S.-proposed Joint Draft Text of December 17, 2009. 
Substantive and other clarifying changes made were identified by 
the sides.  Elliott took the opportunity to provide U.S.-proposed 
agreed statements to the Russian side. End summary. 
 
 
 
¶4.  (U) SUBJECT SUMMARY:  Section I General Provisions; Section II 
Procedures for Elimination of ICBMs and SLBMs; Section III 
Procedures for CorE of ICBM Launchers/Elimination of Silo Launchers 
of ICBMs; Section IV Procedures for CorE of SLBM Launchers; and 
Section V Procedures for CorE of Heavy Bombers. 
 
 
 
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SECTION I GENERAL PROVISIONS 
 
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¶5.  (S) Regarding Paragraph 4 of the General Provisions which 
described CorE procedures developed by a Party, Ryzhkov stated that 
the Russian side had previously dropped its bracketed text "Upon 
clarification" and had accepted the U.S. formulation, "After the 
demonstration, these procedures shall be recorded in the framework 
of the BCC and may be used thereafter for conversion or elimination 
of the specified strategic offensive arms subject to this Treaty." 
 
 
 
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SECTION II Procedures for 
 
Elimination of ICBMs and SLBMs 
 
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¶6.  (S) To add flexibility, Ryzhkov recommended adding "or cut into 
pieces of approximately equal size" at the end of the text in 
paragraph 2(b) which described procedures for the elimination of 
solid-fueled ICBMs and SLBMs when removing the fuel by burning. 
Elliott accepted the addition and also recommended removing the 
U.S.-brackets around the word "rocket" in the same paragraph. 
Ryzhkov accepted. 
 
 
 
¶7.  (S) In paragraph 4, which described the 60-day period of time 
for verification of the elimination of launch canisters using 
national technical means (NTM), Ryzhkov added "a 30-day period" in 
brackets because he believed that 30 days was sufficient for 
verification by NTM.  In paragraph 5, which described the 
prohibition against transferring eliminated launch canisters to 
third parties outside of Russia, Ryzhkov added the bracketed text 
"or the U.S." to clarify that the prohibition applied to both 
sides. 
 
 
 
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SECTION III Procedures for C OR E of 
 
ICBM launchers/elimination of silo 
 
launchers of icbms 
 
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¶8.  (S) The sides agreed to add "the chassis of" and change 
"military facilities" to "declared facilities" in paragraph 4(b) 
which described procedures for the elimination of mobile launchers 
of ICBMs.  The U.S. side added bracket text to replace "white" at 
the end of this paragraph resulting in the formulation, "If the 
chassis of the eliminated mobile launcher of ICBMs is used at a 
declared facility for purposes not inconsistent with the treaty, 
the upper surfaces of the vehicle and items mounted on the chassis, 
visible to national technical means, shall be painted [in such a 
way that it is distinguishable from a deployed mobile launcher of 
ICBMs.]1" 
 
 
 
¶9.  (S) The Russian side accepted the U.S.-bracketed text "with the 
exception of paragraph 4(b) of this section" at the end of 
paragraph 4(b) which described when the eliminated mobile launcher 
ceased to be subject to the treaty.  In paragraph 7, the sides 
agreed to replace "the new" with "other" which described when a 
converted launcher was considered a launcher to which it was 
converted. 
 
 
 
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SECTION IV Procedures for c or e of SLBM Launchers 
 
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¶10.  (S) In paragraph 4, which described the movement of a 
submarine once its launchers had been eliminated, the sides agreed 
to remove both the U.S. and Russian-bracketed text at the end of 
sentence one, leaving the formulation "Upon the expiration of the 
60-day period provided for in accordance with paragraph 3 of this 
section, the submarine may then be moved to a conversion or 
elimination facility."  The U.S.-bracketed text, "and visible to 
national technical means of verification" remained.  Ryzhkov stated 
the text remained bracketed since elimination of a submarine was 
conducted inside a structure and was not visible to NTM.  The sides 
agreed to delete the text "one or more" in the title for the 
Procedures for the Conversion of SLBM Launchers subsection 
following paragraph 4. 
 
 
 
¶11.  (S) Text in paragraphs 5 and 6 was changed to reflect a 
singular SLBM launcher versus plural SLBM launchers and in 
paragraph 7, the word "completed" was changed to "conducted" in the 
sentence restricting movement of a converted submarine until after 
either an inspection or expiration of a 30-day period. 
 
 
 
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SECTION V Procedures for c or e of Heavy Bombers 
 
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¶12.  (S) In paragraph 1, which described the cutting of the tail or 
wing from the fuselage, the text "at locations obviously not 
assembly joints" was added to clarify the location of the cut. 
 
 
 
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AGREED STATEMENTS 
 
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¶13.  (S) Prior to concluding the meeting, Elliott took the 
opportunity to provide U.S.-proposed agreed statements to the 
Russian side on the following issues:  Rapid Reload; Basing of 
Deployed Heavy Bombers at the CorE Facility Located at 
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Converted B-1b Heavy 
Bombers;  Joint Basing of Heavy Bombers Equipped for Nuclear 
Armaments and Heavy Bombers Equipped for Non-Nuclear Armaments; 
Movements of ICBMs to and from the Leninsk Test Range, Republic of 
Kazakhstan; Trident I SLBMs; and U.S. Guided Missile Submarines 
(SSGNs) Converted from SSBNs. 
 
 
 
¶14.  (U) Documents provided: 
 
 
- United States: 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Rapid Reload," 
dated January 13, 2010; 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Basing of Deployed 
Heavy Bombers at the Conversion or Elimination Facility Located at 
Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona," dated February 1, 2010; 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Converted B-1b 
Heavy Bombers," dated February 1, 2010; 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Joint Basing of 
Heavy Bombers Equipped for Nuclear Armaments and Heavy Bombers 
Equipped for Non-Nuclear Armaments," dated February 1, 2010; 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Movements of ICBMs 
to and from the Leninsk Test Range, Republic of Kazakhstan," dated 
February 1, 2010; 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "Trident I SLBMs," 
dated February 1, 2010; and 
 
 
 
-- Paper of the U.S. Side, Agreed Statement on "U.S. Guided Missile 
Submarines (SSGNs) Converted from SSBNs," dated February 1, 2010. 
 
 
 
¶15.  (U) Participants: 
 
 
 
UNITED STATES 
 
 
 
Mr. Elliott 
 
Lt Col Goodman 
 
Mr. Hanchett (RO) 
 
Mr. Sobchenko (Int) 
 
 
 
RUSSIA 
 
 
Col Ryzhkov 
 
Mr. Malyugin 
 
Mr. Shevchenko 
 
Mr. Smirnov 
 
Ms. Komshilova (Int) 
 
 
 
¶16.  (U) Gottemoeller sends. 
LARSON