The deployment of missile defense elements in Romania is officially allowed
ITAR-TASS reports that Traian Basescu, the president of Romania, today signed a law that allows it to deploy elements of NATO missile defense on its territory."Now the agreement on the deployment of US interceptor missiles in the country has entered into force. You can start building a missile defense base," said Basescu. Previously, this law was approved by the Romanian Parliament.
In mid-September, Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, and Theodore Baconschi, head of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, signed an intergovernmental agreement according to which elements of a missile defense system will be located in Deveselu, in the territory of the Romanian air force base. By the year 2015, under this agreement, a missile defense operational control center, the Aegis complex radar station and mobile batteries equipped with SM-3 interceptor missiles (Standard-3) will appear in Romania. For their service to the base will be sent 200 US Army troops.
At the same time, Moscow opposes the plans of the United States to deploy missile defense elements in Romania, since it sees in these actions a threat to its own nuclear deterrent forces. The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that the agreement on missile defense between the United States and Romania makes it urgent for the Russian side to obtain legally binding guarantees of non-targeting of US anti-missile systems against Russia, which will be deployed in Deveselu. For his part, the Romanian President Basescu assures that the elements of the missile defense system will not be directed against Russia on the territory of the state.
23 November, Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, said that the Russian military would strengthen the cover of strategic nuclear forces; strategic ballistic missiles will be equipped with promising complexes for overcoming missile defense and new combat units of high effectiveness; in the south and west of the country, it is possible to deploy modern strike weapons systems that will ensure the fire defeat of the Euro-PRO. At the same time, the president did not rule out the possibility of abandoning the policy of disarmament and of revising agreements on arms limitation previously reached with the United States and on controlling them. He reminded the American side of the right of the Russian Federation to withdraw from the START Treaty, which in both countries is perceived as a symbol of the "reset" of US-Russian relations. At the same time, the Russian president confirmed his readiness to continue negotiations with NATO and the United States to find a compromise solution to the most painful problem in the relations between the West and Russia today.
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