RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 42, Part I, 1 March 2001
U.S. NMD UNLIKELY TO BE EFFECTIVE ANYTIME SOON, GENERAL SAYS. Major General Vladimir Belous, the director of the Moscow Center for International and Strategic Studies, told ITAR- TASS on 28 February that for the next 10 to 15 years the American national missile defense (NMD) system will have "more of a political than a military significance" for Russia because the systems the U.S. will be able to build and deploy "will not be very effective." Another view on such defense came from Duma deputy (Yabloko) Aleksei Arbatov, who told Interfax on the same day that if Moscow succeeds in securing U.S. agreement on the creation of a non-strategic missile defense in Europe, that could lead to Russia's integration into NATO. 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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