1.  He emphasized the need for single command of strategic forces and for a common foreign policy, with the Commonwealth being recognized as a subject in international law.

2.  CIS member states would participate proportionally in financing the maintenance and ultimate destruction of strategic forces.

3.  Col. Viktor Samsonov was appointed as Chief of General Staff, Gen. Yury Maksimov as strategic forces commander and Col.-Gen.

4.  The dispute concerned what proportion of the Fleet should become Ukrainian and what should be handed over to the joint Commonwealth of Independent States strategic forces.

5.  The strategic forces on RF territory were part of the CIS joint armed forces.

6.  The Fleet, it was decided at a meeting of CIS Defence Ministers, would not form part of the CIS strategic forces.

7.  Ukraine insisted on retaining joint command of CIS strategic forces.

8.  The High Command would manage ex-Soviet strategic forces, co-ordinate CIS collective security and oversee peacemaking efforts in internal CIS conflicts.

9.  Because the Bush administration insisted on maximum flexibility in planning its arsenal, it also had to allow Moscow the freedom to plan its strategic forces.

10.  Defense Department officials say President Vladimir Putin cannot long afford to keep his conventional forces at current levels, nor his strategic forces.