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Qabala Radar Won’t Add to Czech Radar, Lavrov Said
The Qabala radar that Russia has offered to the United States for joint operation won’t be an addition to the missile defense shield that the United States intends to station in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly Tuesday.
”We welcome the dialogue that is underway between our diplomats and military, even though we cannot be satisfied with the fact, that in parallel to it, the American colleagues continue saying that whatever we agree on in relation to the joint operation of the radar station, it could be used only as an addition to the third position area of the United States in Europe,” Lavrov announced.
In the United States, the minister went on, they are well aware that our proposals were put forward not as any makeweight to their plan, as, in their plans, we see nothing efficient in terms of the threat set as the key target for neutralization.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin proposed to U.S. President George W. Bush to use Azerbaijan’s Qabala radar as an alternative to deploying elements of the U.S. antimissile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Having visited Qabala, the U.S. military declared that, constructed in time of the Soviet Union, that radar isn’t apt to substitute for the radar to be constructed in Czechia.
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