of the new treaty, strategic arms, call for broader and more far-reaching measures. As you know, the START treaty provides for the limitation of strategic systems rather than their complete elimination. The two sides' remaining armaments must be subject to effective verification. This means that the verification measures that are being drawn up must be more complex and extensive. The most important component of the verification machinery is the inspection activities carried out by means of on-site inspections, both on a routine and on a "suspect site" basis, that is on challenge, as well as continuous monitoring of production facilities for strategic offensive arms. As of now the draft treaty provides for 13 instances - that is, parameters and types of activities - for conducting different kinds of inspection activities. Broad and detailed procedures for those activities have for the most part been agreed upon in a separate document, the joint draft inspection protocol. This draft sets out arrangements for the formation of inspection teams, their status, transport to the inspection sites, inspection procedures establishing a schedule for providing notification of inspections, the conveyance of inspection equipment and supplies, the provision of lodging, meals and medical assistance to the inspectors and many other issues. In parallel with efforts to negotiate the verification articles of the treaty and the provisions on procedures in the protocol on inspections, both sides are seeking ways to make it less complex without thereby undermining the effectiveness and viability of the treaty and the confidence of the sides in compliance with future obligations. The verification mechanism under the future treaty includes the use by each side of its national technical means of verification and prohibits interference with the national technical means of verification of the other side. In particular, it involves a ban on encryption of telemetry data transmitted during flight tests from ballistic 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the details of a treaty related to strategic arms and verification measures, which suggests that it is related to international relations and security. The language used is technical and specific, indicating that the topic is complex and requires specialized knowledge.

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