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| Russia, US to hold missile talks |
| High-level Russian and US teams will discuss this month Washington's missile defence plans for Europe
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-November-2007
9:12:16 AM |
| High-level Russian and US teams will discuss this month Washington's missile defence plans for Europe, a Russian foreign ministry official has said.
Igor Neverov, who heads the foreign ministry's North America department, however said on Thursday Washington had not yet provided Moscow with formal proposals on settling differences over its plans to deploy missile defence elements in the Czech Republic and Poland.
''We hope the United States will provide the proposals so that they can be discussed prior to the meeting,'' Neverov said, without giving a date for the talks in Washington.
The US is planning to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic as part of its European missile shield, to avert possible strikes from ''rogue states'', such as Iran and North Korea. Russia has objected, citing concerns over its national security.
Col Gen Varfolomei Korobushin, first vice president of the Russian Military Sciences Academy, said that Russian air defence systems would be able to intercept American missiles in the event of a possible attack from the proposed US missile defence base in Poland.
''While we have no data suggesting that the missile interceptors the US plans to deploy in Poland are to be equipped with nuclear warheads, Russia would in any case have time to destroy them in the event of an attack on Moscow,'' he said.
A number of experts say it is a relatively simple operation to turn missile interceptors into offensive weapons by equipping them with warheads, nuclear or otherwise.
A high-ranking official from Russia's defence ministry's international military cooperation department said Moscow did not see any grounds for a hasty build-up of US missile defence elements in Europe.
''It is unclear to us why such haste is necessary in drawing up plans to build the missile defence system. There are currently no grounds to carry out such expensive projects,
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