Rasmussen: NATO does not want to retarget the missile defense system in the Russian Federation
NATO does not want to retarget the European ABM system in the Russian Federation, said on the last working day of the week, the organisation's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. " We remain fully committed to the execution of the decision of the Lisbon NATO summit (November 2010) ", said the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. In the process the Lisbon summit, NATO leaders said that the MISSILE defense system will not be directed against Russia, reports ITAR-TASS. Remember, on Thursday in Wales opened the NATO summit. Commonwealth Secretary-General touched upon many topics, but the Russian Federation and Ukraine passed through the speech Rasmussen quite visible red thread. In connection with the situation around Ukraine, NATO has adopted a number of measures that the Alliance explains the necessity of ensuring the security of the allies. So, were strengthened mission air patrol in the Baltic countries, the aircraft with radar equipment make regular flights over the territory of Poland and Romania, there is an additional NATO ships in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. Before " six " of international mediators on Iran's nuclear program and Iranian employees of the foreign Ministry arrived in Geneva to the historic agreement, Russian politicians have argued that consensus will remove the reason for the creation ABOUT, because NATO will have nothing to explain the need for European missile defense, if you solved the problem of Iran. However, a source at NATO has denied these allegations, saying that the Alliance does not see grounds for revision of the plans of creation of the missile defense system. In early April, the U.S. Department of defense said temporary stop discuss missile defense with Russia over the situation in Ukraine. Head of the main Department of international military cooperation of the Ministry of defence of Russia Sergey Koshelev said in may that the MISSILE defense system the United States and NATO has anti-Russian potential in its future deployment will increase.