The deployment of the U.S. MISSILE defense system will upset the balance of powers in the European Union, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makei.

" The deployment of these systems will likely upset the balance of powers on the European continent, " said Mackay after a joint meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Belarus and Russia.

He added that agreed on Tuesday in Minsk With his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, " measures adequate response " to this danger.

in 2002, the US abandoned signed with Russia missile defense (He allowed the parties to create only one MISSILE defense systems, limiting its location, size, and power) and headed for accommodation in the EU 3rd position area of the global strategic framework for its ABM (anti-ballistic missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic), able to hit Russian ICBMs. These plans were met with sharp opposition to the capital of Russia, which considered them a threat. In 2013, the US told him about the reorientation of efforts in the field of MISSILE defense in the Asia-Pacific region and was postponed until 2022 Deployed in Romania and Poland interceptors that intercept ICBMs and SLBMs. With its own NATO said the decision to build a full-fledged territorial MISSILE defence, which is scheduled to be done by 2020. However, the basis of this system remain American objects.

Moscow is seeking to secure assurances about " not directed " European MISSILE defense against Russia in legally binding form, but received a refusal. In March 2014, the United States, and in April, NATO stopped the dialogue with Russia on missile defence, referring to the Ukrainian crisis.

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