Russian Ambassador to NATO: The BMD Discussions Are "Exhausted," Unless the U.S. and NATO Provide Guarantees
February 11, 2014 • 5:09PM
In
a timely restatement of long-standing Russian policy on the U.S.-NATO
Ballistic Missile Defense system, which is being deployed to encircle
Russia and impose their strategic capitulation to the British Monarchy's
policies, Russia's ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko, told Russia
24 TV channel yesterday:
"We can go around in circles, convene meetings, but if we fail to resolve the fundamental issue of providing reliable legal guarantees of non-direction of the US and NATO missile system against Russian forces of nuclear deterrence, we can expect no improvements" in the BMD discussion.
RIA Novosti reported that Grushko added: "If our partners are not ready to give us this information, then we have no chance to come to an agreement. I do not see any possibility of doing this." Both current President Vladimir Putin and then-President Dmitri Medvedev have stated in no uncertain terms that the unilateral deployment of the U.S.-NATO BMD is strategically unacceptable to Russia, and that they will take necessary countermeasures before the system is fully deployed.
"We can go around in circles, convene meetings, but if we fail to resolve the fundamental issue of providing reliable legal guarantees of non-direction of the US and NATO missile system against Russian forces of nuclear deterrence, we can expect no improvements" in the BMD discussion.
RIA Novosti reported that Grushko added: "If our partners are not ready to give us this information, then we have no chance to come to an agreement. I do not see any possibility of doing this." Both current President Vladimir Putin and then-President Dmitri Medvedev have stated in no uncertain terms that the unilateral deployment of the U.S.-NATO BMD is strategically unacceptable to Russia, and that they will take necessary countermeasures before the system is fully deployed.
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