RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 38, Part I, 23 February 2001
MOSCOW MAY PUT MISSILES IN CUBA, SELL ADVANCED WEAPONS TO CHINA IF NO ACCORD ON NMD. Yevgenii Maslin, a retired general who supervised the Defense Ministry's nuclear program in the 1990s, said in Moscow on 22 February that if there is no agreement between Moscow and Washington on National Missile Defense, the Russian government may send missiles to Cuba, AP reported. Indeed, he said, that possibility is already under discussion in Moscow. Meanwhile, "Vremya MN" said the same day that the introduction of NMD by the U.S. could lead the Russian government to sell additional and more advanced weapons systems, including those "far beyond conventional weapons." PG
Copyright (c) 2001. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. http://www.rferl.org
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