Moscow to react to US Asian missile defense

Published time: September 07, 2012 11:04
Edited time: September 07, 2012 15:04
X-Band Radar (SBX) (AFP Photo)

Russia has expressed its concern over American plans to deploy a new missile defense shield in Southeast Asia.

"The continuing growth of the US potential in what we call the Far East – the Asia-Pacific region – does not go unnoticed in Russia," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a nonproliferation conference in Moscow. “We are closely following what is happening between the USA and its allies in Asia.”

According to the diplomat, “important events” are unfolding in the region and “a lot has already been achieved,” cites Interfax.

Moscow’s concerns about the situation arise from the technology involved, as well as the “geography and the US capability to deploy these assets in different locations.”

It is important that Washington eases these concerns. Otherwise, “there is a set of measures worked out by the Russian leadership,” Ryabkov noted.

Earlier, it was reported that Washington was planning to expand its missile defense in Asia in response to threats from North Korea and to counter China’s growing missile capabilities.

The buildup could include an early-warning radar system on a southern Japanese island and possibly another one in Southeast Asia. These two new radars would supplement the one already installed in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan in 2006.

The US global missile defense shield – in particular its European sector – has long been a stumbling block in the relations between Moscow and Washington. Russia worries that the planned system may pose a threat to its national security. The US has so far refused to provide legally-binding guarantees that the European missile defense assets would not be targeted against Russia.

“The US missile defense system – is surely one of the key issues on today’s agenda because it involves Russia’s vital interests,” President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with RT.

The differences on the issue can only be solved if both sides accept as an axiom that they are “reliable partners and allies for each other.” That would mean the parties “jointly do missile threat assessments and control this defense system together,” Putin said.

The president stressed that Russia had done what it could and offered to work on the system together. However, the American partners are “refusing to go along.” Moscow is set to continue the dialogue on the matter, he stressed.

“But naturally, as our American partners proceed with developing their own missile defense we shall have to think of how we can defend ourselves and preserve the strategic balance,” Putin added.

In November last year, then-President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia could place offensive weaponry on its borders with Europe as one possible measure against the deployment of American elements of missile defense shield in the region.

Comments (55)

Deus misereatur (unregistered) 11.09.2012 00:41

Man has no balance with nature and seeks growth as would a cancer but this cannot continue.  As would a cancer, it would in the end kill that which allows it to survive. Man exploits, pollutes and depletes in an unsustainable manner.  

War now masquerades as serving mankind but in fact it is a tool for those who seek power and profit.  It seduces many with justifications and proclamations but these are betrayed by its deeds.  It is used to seek power, steal the wealth of other nations and is waged on populations by strangulation and destruction, the infants, children and old suffering most. Weapons of demonic nature slaughter, maim and deform the new born.  Such weapons forever contaminate the land, air and water where used.  

Wars will rage, nations will be raped for profit and power and the slaughter of many will follow but those who seek power or profit through war in these times shall end with neither.  War, exploitation, usury, hatred between brother races and the lust for profit over the service of God and society, these immoralities are an abomination but this era is coming to an end.  Those who embrace this immorality will like all answer to God.

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Deus misereatur (unregistered) 11.09.2012 00:40

Moral conduct is the divine will but this has been corrupted by the nature and free will of man. Man's new temples are not in the service to God or society but in service to his greed.  Nations and its people have become enslaved through debt to the corrupt and wealth is made exploiting the labour of fellow men, the riches of nations being hoarded by oligarchs.  Obscene wealth is in the hands of the few while the many live in poverty.

Power and profit has corrupted mankind and its leaders.  They serve themselves and the corrupt before the needs of the people.  The rulers are in hand with the corrupt and live in decadence at cost to the people while their people suffer.  Ever more profit is sought from the exploitation of the poorest.  The sin of usury serves the insatiable greed of the corrupt and places profit before the needs of the people.  But when the ceiling of corrupt usury is reached as determined by the laws of mathematics and the limits of the natural world, when the artificial values and pyramid constructs founded on debt he has made collapse, and when vast debts can longer be repaid, these corrupt practices shall be exposed and suffering shall befall on all.  Many people shall believe they are wealthy but this is manipulation whereby debt and false worth create this illusion.  Only when their debts exceed the value of their possessions shall they understand.  Debt is the instrument of finance but it will suffocate and overwhelm society.  This is occurring before you. 

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AmericanInRomania (unregistered) 10.09.2012 15:19

I wish Russia would 'react' by building its own missile shield defense so we can start disarming more ICBM's on both sides.  
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