MAFRA, Portugal (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday compared the U.S. proposal to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.
"Analogous actions by the Soviet Union, when it deployed missiles in Cuba, prompted the 'Caribbean crisis,"' Putin said at a news conference at the end of a European Union-Russian summit in Portugal, using the Russian term for the Cuban missile crisis.
"Such a threat is being set up on our borders," he said.
At the same time, Putin suggested the tension was much lower than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis because Russian-U.S. relations have moved on since the Cold War. He also said he believes the United States is listening to Moscow's concerns about its missile plans.
Putin said his relationship with President Bush helps solve problems in relations with the U.S., calling him a friend.
The U.S. plan would install a radar base in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland -- both former Soviet satellites that are now NATO members. It is part of a wider missile shield involving defenses in California and Alaska which the United States says are to defend against any long-range missile attack from countries such as North Korea or Iran.
Russia strongly opposes the idea, saying Iran is decades away from developing missile technology that could threaten Europe or North America, and it says the U.S. bases will undermine Russia's own missile deterrent force.
Aaaaaa! I don’t even know what to say! I know kids of 5 years old, more mature than USA! We all know your “power” (if power for u means money and military extrasuperultra weapons, as for little kids power means the newest toy in the supermarket) so u don’t need to make it know, with your stupid “missile defense shield”, to the simplest persons of the world in Iran, who only need a piece of cloth to wear and a piece of food to eat and just want to leave then in peace!… and less to Russia, who had already overcome the Cold War trauma. You know perfectly, because u have provoked in a great way, that Iran, is very far away from developing missile technology that could threaten your country! So please, let’s overcome it,…it’s time to mature!!! Don’t u think? We all know u have won, there’s no more candies for u, stop bothering those who want a live of peace and tranquility!...not as you,…I don’t believe it, making a missile defense shield when we all are, iran and all the entire planet, who really need to put a defense shield from u!
domingo, 28 de octubre de 2007
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