Russia wants legal security guarantees over AMD plans in Europe – NATO envoy

Published time: May 16, 2011 14:03
Edited time: May 16, 2011 18:29
French Navy personel prepare a "Mica ER" missile (AFP Photo / Alexandr Klein)
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Moscow is concerned over NATO's failure to guarantee that the European missile defense project will not threaten Russia's security, says Russia's envoy to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin.

“We would like to receive real guarantees from the US side. The statements that the new missile defense shield is not against Russia are ok, but who can confirm it and how is it possible?” he said.

“We would like to have real legal guarantees by the Senate and the [US] presidential administration, nothing more,” Rogozin added.

“The first step should be the determination of the new missile defense system architecture,” Russia’s envoy to NATO also stressed.

On Monday, Russia reaffirmed it will take measures, if the US and NATO continue with their European missile defense plan without taking Moscow's view on board. The Foreign Ministry says it will be forced into “an appropriate response”.

Washington has been leading efforts for the missile shield in Europe, saying it will help protect the continent from countries like Iran and North Korea.

Russia wants an equal part in the project but there has been little progress so far in reaching a compromise.

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from Poland 21.05.2011 09:52

Alex AK47,

Eastern Europe changes locks for better and Russia buys bigger crowbar – that is exactly what is happening here.

Each country has its own rights what it should have in its own borders. People here get rabies when AMD is meant to be delivered somewhere in East of Europe – but do You think in Kaliningrad there are only flowers growing? Half of polish territory and all territory of Baltic Countries is covered by russian AA system and no one makes fuss about it (well those systems have limited operability and are targeted plus in range of cruise missles so they are basically harmless in case of any operation but it is not the case). But now image if for half of russian territory would be covered by polish AA systems – panic under the roof in Moscow at least! Double standards anyone?

Peopl e here I see are interlocked somewhere between absurd and fantasy. Stop dreaming &ndash ; AMD is only a mockup system and political bargain card. Even third world-countries like Poland have means to exceed parameters of the famous "american missle shield" so does Russia. No side either if it is Russia or NATO doesn't want to dump current relations &ndas h; because there is no profit from that. We have new generation of very pragmatic leaders, not hot-headed eagles of the Bush era. All those shananigans about AMD are just to take Your attention from other more important problems &ndash ; corruption, growing technology rust belt, brain drain, inflation, basic raw resource economy, crime, terrorism and more. REAL and difficult problems to solve instead of few billions worth AMD that will only work against only the lowest-class of balistic missles that no one uses from around 40 years.

And neither US or RF goverment could be trustworthy but as old polish saying states: it is better to loose with Americans than win with the Russians.

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Alex AK47 20.05.2011 19:09

It is the time to Vladimir Putin to go back to his position as President of the Russian Federation. It is obvious the POS  of Americans and NATO would promise and say whenever their PM meet in Summits that they are going to be doing a joint European Missile Defense, but at the time the Russians say lets get it on they start giving excuses and run arounds. This is what Russia needs to do:
The first country that puts those missiles/radar near the Russian border (Poland wh0res, Czech Rep, Romania and I forgot the other ones) Russia will have to go and bomb the hell out of it, and say oops we have intel that there were chechen terrorists in your soil so we reserve the right to bomb whenever we want as Americans are doing now in Pakistan. That will send a message to the other prostitute countries that are willing to lend their soil for foreign american/nato bases. You want to play war/strategic chicken sh1t games, don't you b1tches learned history at school? Napoleon, Hitler, they all perish and begged at the end like little girls to go back to their homeland.

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salami 17.05.2011 01:28

Oh yea, and I want $100 million wired to my account.  I'm waiting.

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