Iskander
© RIA Novosti.
19:22 24/04/2012
MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow
reiterated on Tuesday it may deploy Iskander theater ballistic missiles
in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad that will be capable of
effectively engaging elements of the U.S. missile defense system in
Poland.
The missile defense system in Poland does not jeopardize Russia’s
nuclear forces, Army General Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff
of the Russian Armed Forces, said.
“However, if it is modernized…it could affect our nuclear capability
and in that case a political decision may be made to deploy Iskander
systems in the Kaliningrad region,” he said in an interview with RT
television.
“But that will be a political decision,” he stressed. “So far there is no such need.”
NATO members agreed to create a missile shield over Europe to protect
it against ballistic missiles launched by so-called rogue states, for
example Iran and North Korea, at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2010.
Russia has strongly criticized NATO’s reluctance to provide written,
legally binding guarantees that its European missile shield will not be
directed against Moscow.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an array of measures to
strengthen the country’s missile defense capabilities to counter NATO’s
shield, including the deployment of Iskander missiles on the border with
Poland.
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