By Xinhua
Moscow : The US has deleted five compromise proposals from a document received by Russia in November on the missile defence plans in East Europe, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
The US offered to make a number of concessions at an October round of talks in Moscow in the “two-plus-two” format joined by defence and foreign ministers of the two countries, said the Interfax news agency Saturday quoting the ministry.
The October talks were called to find a solution to a US-Russian dispute over the American plans to deploy missile defence elements in Poland and the Czech Republic
One of the concessions the US showed willingness to make during the talks was that it wouldn’t activate interceptor missiles before there was an authentic evidence of existence of ballistic missiles threatening Europe, according to the Russian ministry.
Others were that American interceptors would not be placed in silos; that they would be dismantled if a missile threat were eliminated; that the US would join forces with Russia in checking whether any missiles had been launched in the Middle East or western Asia threatening Europe; and that Washington and Moscow would make joint decisions on how to react to missile threats.
Moscow strongly opposes the US ABM system plans, which consist of a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, considering them a threat to Russian national security. Washington has insisted the missile shield is intended to stave off the threat of attacks from what it calls “rogue states.”