RUSSIA REITERATES ISKANDER BALLISTIC MISSILE DEPLOYMENT THREAT

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 24, 2012 – 21:30 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Moscow reiterated on Tuesday, April 24 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, RIA Novosti reported.

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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress