Ivanov flays US 'missile defence'
AP
New Delhi: Russia's defence minister yesterday criticised US plans to deploy missile defence sites in central Europe, saying that Moscow doesn't trust American claims that they are intended to counter Iranian and North Korean threats.
Sergei Ivanov, speaking during a trip to India where he co-chaired a bilateral commission on military ties, said that neither Iran nor North Korea has or will have a capability to build missiles capable of reaching Europe.
"They don't and won't have intercontinental ballistic missiles," Ivanov said at a news conference.
"And a question comes: whom it's directed against?" Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic - like Poland, a former Soviet satellite that is now a Nato member - said that Washington had asked to base a radar station in the country that would serve as another part of the system.
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