1.   And he added that strategic stability required that all three of these concepts be preserved.

2.   He must maintain a strategic stability in the world that prevents the start of a new and deadly arms race around the world.

3.   Strategic stability can never be a one-way street.

4.   The ABM Treaty is the cornerstone of strategic stability in our relationship with Russia.

5.   The importance of strategic stability for international security is so great that it must not be made subject to politics, domestic considerations, or unilateral foreign policy.

6.   The maintenance of strategic stability is not a one-time action.

7.   The national missile defense system that the president will review this summer is intended to meet threats from proliferant states like North Korea while preserving strategic stability.

8.   The statement called on experts from both sides to prepare a joint report on how to tackle new threats to strategic stability.

9.   Therefore, for them, as well as for us, maintaining strategic stability increases trust and confidence on both sides.

10.   A key goal of the session was to build on commitments by President Clinton and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to cooperate on strategic stability, U.S. officials said.