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1 May 2013 |
| http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/russia-calls-more-talks-us-missile-shield/ |
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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Tuesday called for further talks with the United States on the Obama administration's plans to establish a missile shield in Europe, Interfax reported. Antonov and U.S. Defense Undersecretary James Miller met in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss implications of Washington's decision to cancel development of a next-generation missile interceptor that would have a limited ability to counter ICBMs. Moscow had been strongly opposed to the Standard Missile 3 Block 2B interceptor, seeing in it a threat to its own long-range nuclear missiles. Antonov told reporters the day's talks did not resolve all Russian concerns about planned U.S. antimissile systems in Europe, which include other land-based SM-3 interceptors in Poland and Romania. Another round of bilateral talks is expected to take place in Moscow, possibly close to May 23-24, according to the Russian official. "Missile defense problems are too complicated in order to hope that
Russia’s concerns will be removed at once," Antonov said to
ITAR-Tass. "Too many problems in this aspect accumulated between the two
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