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U.S. Interceptors in Europe Will Change Balance, Russia Says
The U.S. plans of creating missile defense sites in Europe will be a wrong step with negative aftereffects for global security, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Mikhail Kamynin commented on the U.S. intention to deploy interceptors in Poland and Czechia.
“Establishment of the European antimissile base of the United States couldn’t be viewed other than the material reconfiguration of the U.S. military presence in Europe,” Kamynin specified.
”No matter what arguments we are given about the so-called absence of direction of this base against Russia and about its designation for solving the problems of proliferation of mass destruction weapons and about the opposition to the missile threat from Asian directions, we cannot but see sequential attachment of strategic component to the U.S. armed forces in the region,” Kamynin said.
Russia will have to take into account the existence of such base near its borders when shaping military and political actions and dealing with practical military construction, the official warned.
The U.S. missile defense sites that Pentagon intends to deploy in Poland and Czechia before 2012 won’t affect Russian security but are designed to intercept missiles of Iran capable of reaching Eastern Europe, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering from Pentagon announced today, attributing this move to the U.S. intention to “ stay ahead of what we think that threat is."
The United States informed Poland already about the desire to launch official negotiations on possible deployment of land-based antiballistic missiles there. Czechia was asked about deploying a radar station, Czechia’s Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said some time earlier. This radar station will be a part of the U.S. system of missile defense sites in Europe.
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