NATO refused Russia’s unified missile defense system proposal on the establishment of
Date:2012-05-05Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
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Moscow, Itar-Tass, May 3] NATO Deputy Secretary-General Alexander Vershbow today Moscow Echo radio interview, said that the Russian armed forces Chief of General Staff speech warning against European anti-missile system is not new. He stressed that the European anti-missile system is not aimed at Russia, in order to prevent the threat from the Middle East.
Vershbow believes that Russia can greatly improve their anti-missile defense system, the system linked with NATO, which depends on Russia is willing to go far in this regard. He also noted that NATO insist on the establishment of two interrelated anti-missile system, which belong to a different command, while the Russian proposal to establish a unified anti-missile system. He believes that the strengthening of NATO’s proposal benefits even more, because in this case, the NATO system to defend the NATO countries, the Russian system to protect Russia, but the cooperation of the two systems can make each other’s defense capabilities .
According to another report, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia will not abandon its nuclear weapons, Russia’s vast territory, the situation is complex, we should cherish and defend their country.
German World Journal, May 3] from NATO’s Chicago summit is about three weeks now, Russia has issued a threat against NATO’s missile defense system will be through the preemptive . Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov in Moscow on Thursday held a meeting and announced that once the “deterioration of the situation and must make preventive pre-emptive attack” Russia will attack the basis of the NATO missile defense facilities.
Makarov went on to say: a new attack system is an option to destroy the NATO missile defense system deployed in the Kaliningrad region. “
NATO Deputy Secretary of , Alexander Vershbow dismissed the threats made by Makarov: “Russia on cooperation in the field of missile defense. Unfortunately, this cooperation is not such as NATO’s willing.”
NATO summit on
held in Chicago in the middle of this month, NATO announced that the missile defense system already has a transitional capacity. The end of the decade, the missile defense system will create a fully functional network, in order to withstand a missile attack from countries such as Iran. Nevertheless, Russia still insists that the system is a threat to its security.
In addition, Russia in mid-April at a NATO meeting the requirements of NATO must make a legally binding commitment to NATO’s missile defense system for the territory of Russia. But NATO flatly refused to make this commitment, the most they can make a political statement.
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