Plans for missile shield in Europe not understandable - Lavrov
05:46 PM (MSK) February 25, 2007
The U.S. plans to create a missile shield in Eastern Europe are not quite understandable for Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday. The United States has announced plans to build a radar installation in the Czech Republic and a missile base in Poland in the next five years. The U.S. insists that the European missile shield is meant to counter possible attacks from "rogue regimes," including Iran and North Korea. "This [the U.S. statement on its intention to place a missile shield in Eastern Europe] is an example when a position, which has been expressed to us, as it seems, honestly and sincerely, turns out to be not quite understandable to us after a specific study," Lavrov said in an interview with TVTs TV channel.
Lavrov said the hypothetical trajectory of missiles that could be launched from Iran and North Korea was different from the trajectory the U.S. spoke about.
