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Ivanov: U.S. Missile Defense Plans Should Be Transparent

August 28, 2006 :: RIA-Novosti :: News

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has announced that U.S. missile defense plans for Eastern Europe should be “transparent.” He was referring to U.S. plans to possibly deploy a network of anti-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, two former communist-bloc countries. “As far as the global strategic missile defense system is concerned, we approach this issue quite cautiously and believe that such systems should be deployed with maximum transparency so as not to provoke other countries into developing weapons that could penetrate this defense,” Ivanov said at a news conference after talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Ivanov and Rumsfeld met in Fairbanks on Sunday, August 27, to discuss bilateral defense cooperation and other international issues. (Article)

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