標題:Missile shield accord draws Russian fire
By Isabel Gorst in Moscow and Jan Cienski in Warsaw
Published: August 15 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 15 2008 18:09
Moscow lashed out at Washington and Warsaw on Friday, saying the plan to site
a US anti-missile defence shield in Poland would undermine the global balance
of power and put Poland at risk of nuclear attack.
Washington and Warsaw reached a preliminary agreement on Thursday to build
part of the missile defence shield in Poland, station US Patriot missiles
there and bolster the two countries’ military co-operation.
The US claims the shield in Poland, as well as a radar tracking base to be
located in the Czech Republic, is designed to defend against “rogue states”
such as Iran.
The timing of this week’s agreement, as relations between Russia and the US
deteriorated over the Georgia crisis, has strengthened Moscow’s conviction
that the move is anti-Russian.
“The deployment of new anti-missile forces in Europe has the Russian
federation as its aim,” said Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, at a
press conference with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Friday.
Dmitri Rogozin, Russia’s Nato envoy, said the fact the agreement “was
signed at a time of a very difficult crisis in relations between Russia and
the US over the situation in Georgia shows that, of course, the missile
defence system will be deployed not against Iran, but against the strategic
potential of Russia.”
Anatoly Nogovitsin, the deputy head of the Russian armed forces, warned
Poland that by hosting the shield it could become the target of a nuclear
attack in war time. “The US is concerned with its own anti-missile defence,
not Poland’s. But Poland, by deploying [the shield], will be exposed to
attack.”
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec3816b6-6a60-11dd-83e8-0000779fd18c.html
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