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In the wake of the successful INF negotiation, new negotiations on force reductions and stabilising measures in NATO and Warsaw Pact forces stationed in Europe will begin in 1988, or at the latest in 1989. Among the highly complex problems negotiators at the new talks will have to resolve, if they are to achieve a concrete outcome, is the issue of verification — verifying that residual ceilings on forces and armaments after reductions are not exceeded and that other obligations undertaken are complied with. This account of the issues and procedures which will be involved in verifying a NATO—Pact force reduction is written both for those who are informed on details of the NATO—Pact confrontation and for those who have not closely followed this subject. For the latter, this chapter will also provide some insight into the broad range of problems which will have to be resolved in order to reach agreement on reductions as well as verification.
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This article is intended to reflect personal thinking and experience on the verification problem and will not have numerous footnotes. However, two papers presented at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arms Control and Verification, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 23-26 March 1988, give very useful background. They are: Arend J. Meerburg (WEU, Paris), ‘The Verification of Conventional Arms Control Measures in Europe’; and Dr. J. R. Walker (UK Foreign Office), ‘Verification: Challenges for Conventional Arms Reduction in Europe’. Two further articles are also useful: John A. Adam, ‘Verification: Keeping Ivan Honest’, in the Washington Post, 24 January 1988. The article describes devices which could be used in verifying the INF Treaty; and
Peter Lyddon and Malcolm Lingwood (UK Ministry of Defence), ‘Verification for Conventional Arms Control’, written for the UK Council for Arms Control Verification Seminar, February, 1988.
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Jonathan, D. (1990). Verifying NATO—Warsaw Pact Force Reductions and Stabilising Measures. In: Barnaby, F. (eds) A Handbook of Verification Procedures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11041-4_7
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