Lack of agreement on missile defense may hamper building common Euro-Atlantic space - Lavrov
MUNICH. Feb 2 (Interfax) - The absence of agreement on missile defense between Russia and the U.S. may make it impossible to build common Euro-Atlantic space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"The missile defense problem has become an important test for consistency between solemn declarations and real deeds," Lavrov said at the 49th Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
"We all risk losing one more real chance to build common Euro-Atlantic space," he said.
"Russia has proposed a simple and constructive way: to coordinate strict guarantees that the U.S.' global missile defense system will not be targeted against any OSCE member-state and develop clear military-technological criteria making it possible to assess how missile defense systems correspond to their declared purposes," he said.