I am referring particularly to the preparation of the agreement on 50 percent reductions in strategic offensive arms.

It is its offensive arm, with personnel drawn from the Indian Army.

Like the British, they concluded that money would better be spent on making the offensive arm larger, deterring an attack.

Moscow has shown itself willing to pay a high price in reducing offensive arms to slow the program down.

Moreover, this would be the very first agreement that significantly reduced offensive nuclear arms.

But Moscow would not accept cuts in offensive arms without continued restrictions on defenses.

In a reversal last week, the Administration stated that it won't agree to reduce offensive arms without an accord on the future of defenses.

This is a very difficult process, especially if you take the question of strategic offensive arms.

Take for example our negotiations on the 50 percent reductions in strategic offensive arms.

Both sides wanted the summit meeting to succeed and to make progress on reducing long-range offensive arms.