Monday, July 06, 2009

Missile shield set to counter Iran, not Russia: Obama


Mon, Jul 6 05:59 AMMoscow, July 6 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama has said that the proposed
deployment of a missile shield in Europe was intended to counter Iran and Russia should
not worry about it.
In an interview with Novaya Gazeta newspaper Monday, Obama said that Washington was
seeking to create a missile shield in Europe to protect the US and Europe from Iranian
ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.
Obama is arriving in Moscow Monday on a two-day official visit for top-level talks with the
Russian leadership. The missile shied issue is likely to top the agenda of the discussion
besides the nuclear arms reduction and other key international and bilateral issues.
Obama told the newspaper that the US was not creating and would not create a system of
defence against a possible attack from Russia, adding that such a rationale was an
inheritance of the cold war period.
source
:http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090706/884/twl-missile-shield-set-to-counter-iran-n.html

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