WORLD / Europe
Russia urges US to freeze missile defense in Europe
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-10 10:44
MOSCOW - Russia called on the United States to stop creating an
anti-ballistic missile defense system in Europe before the two nations
negotiate on the joint use of an Azeri radar system, Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) attends the NATO foreign
ministers informal meeting in Oslo April 26, 2007. Russia's proposal to
the United States to use jointly a radar in Azerbaijan makes it
unnecessary for Washington to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe,
Lavrov said on Saturday.[Reuters]
"There must be a freeze on the deployment of missile defense facilities
in Europe for the whole period of analysis and negotiations," Lavrov was
quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
"We invite the United States to jointly and competently assess everything
and also to sort things out and achieve universal understanding," he said.
According to Lavrov, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S.
counterpart George W. Bush will hold a detailed discussion on the
problems related to the missile defense system in Kennebenkport, the
State of Maine, on July 1-2.
Earlier on Thursday, at the G8 summit, Putin proposed to Bush that the
United States and Russia jointly use the Gabala radar base in Azerbaijan,
a former Soviet republic, to replace its plan to station missile
interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic.
Bush described the proposal as "interesting" and said that the two sides
had set up a working group of experts to see how they could cooperate on
missile defense.
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