Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept.24 / Trend E. Tariverdiyeva /
NATO hopes that the U.S. new administration's plans will relate to the security of the alliance, because up to now, the alliance carefully approached the plans to deploy missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia's permanent representative to the NATO, Dmitriy Rogozin, said.
"I can testify that NATO was not aware of a separate transaction of the former U.S. administration with the Czechs and the Poles," Rogozin told Trend in a telephone conversation.
On Sept.18 the U.S. announced that it has amended plans to deploy missile defense system in Europe, after receiving new intelligence, according to which currently there is a large threat from Iranian small and medium-range missiles, not from ballistic, as formerly thought. Regarding this, the U.S will build surface elements of a missile defense system only in 2015, but until then will send ships armed with interceptor missiles and radar-equipped to the Northern and Southern Europe.
Until recent period, the U.S was likely to deploy radar in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland by late 2010, under the pretext of protection from the Iranian missile threats.
According to Rogozin, now Obama has corrected Bush's mistake. The members of the alliance understand that the perspective to create a single missile defense system for all countries of the alliance began to gleam.
"Obama made a more useful option for themselves, and not because it is in the interests of Russia", Rogozin said.
The U.S. missile defense program has not been abolished, but altered, just now, the U.S selected mobile sea-based option instead of stationary installation, Rogozin added.
According to Rogozin, the U.S. did not act circumspectly with partners, but under its national interest.
"They made an option that is advantageous to them in the political, economic and technical sense," Rogozin said.
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