NSDD 257 Guidance to the United States Delegation for Negotiations with Western Europe, Japan, and Canada on the Space Station

CUNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Guidance 1. Maintain the initiative in the negotiations and seek to focus discussions on U.S. draft texts consistent with policy guidance. 2. Seek mutually beneficial agreements on participation in the detailed design, development, operation, and utilization of the civil Space Station by friends and allies of the U.S., specifi- cally Western Europe, Japan, and Canada. 3. Ensure consistency throughout the agreement with the following definitions: The U.S. has a Space Station program which will produce the core U.S. Space Station. The international participants each have programs to produce hardware elements which will add to the capabilities of the core U.S. Space Station. Together, the core U.S. Space Station and the international hardware elements will be referred to as "the Space Station Complex. The term partners in resulting international agreements will refer to the Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Government of Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Government of Japan, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Swiss Confederation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. Collectively, the agreements will define the relation- ship between and among, and the respective obligations of, the partners. 4. Ensure that the framework for international participation in the Space Station program demonstrates the benefits of working with the U.S. in space, so that cooperation with our friends and allies will continue in the future and these countries will associate their programs with ours. 5. Ensure that any international participation strengthens the ability of the United States to operate a Space Station with enhanced capabilities in the mid-1990s for U.S. users, including government, scientific, and commercial users. 6. Ensure that any foreign participants recognize and agree that the United States may use the U.S. elements of the Space Station and the Canadian-provided Mobile Servicing Center for national security purposes, consistent with U.S. Law and U.S. international obligations, without their consent or necessarily their review. 7. Ensure that the U.S. scientific community and U.S. private sector entities will have appropriate opportunities to use U.S. elements of the Space Station and the U.S. share of other elements, within the U.S. allocation of utilization resources. $ "INCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL