Russia's ambassador to NATO: U.S. ignoring Russia and even European allies while devising NMD
The United States is building a national missile defense system without consultations with partners and even allies, presenting all with an accomplished fact, Russia's ambassador to NATO Konstantin Totsky said in an interview with Interfax and the newspaper Noviye Izvestia. "I cannot understand our partners in the Russia-NATO Council," Totsky said.
"Washington argues," he said, "that all of these interceptor missiles and radars in Eastern Europe are supposedly intended to defend the allies. But the allies are not even being asked. The American project does not need to be approved by the NATO Council and the European ambassadors are telling me that this supposedly refers to bilateral relations between Washington and Warsaw, Washington and Prague and Washington and Moscow, and that NATO is not at all involved."
Concerning the Russian approach to the issue, the diplomat said that, Russia "has been proposing cooperation which has been rejected." "Since Iranian missiles and the nuclear weapons of the 'rogue states' rank among our common threats, let us gather together and assess them, and let us build an antimissile system jointly. No, we'll not get together, we are told. We'll build it first, they say, and then we'll invite you," Totsky said.
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