Russia has not abandoned its plans to install short-range Iskander missiles in its western Kaliningrad enclave, chief of Russia's General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Monday, Xinhua reported.
"There is no decision to that effect so far. It must be a political decision," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
"I cannot make this decision; that is a responsibility of the president," he said.
Makarov also stressed that the United States actually "will develop the missile defense network, but it will be sea-based."
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said Saturday that Russia has dropped plans to install short-range Iskander missiles in its enclave region of Kaliningrad after the U.S. scrapped its missile defense program in Eastern Europe.
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