Russia wants U.S. to sign deal saying militaries don't target each other

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/06/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-US-Missile-Defense.php

Russia wants U.S. to sign deal saying militaries don't target each other
The Associated Press

MOSCOW: Russia wants to negotiate a deal with the United States saying their militaries will not target each other, as a way to assuage concerns over U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in central Europe, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.

Alexander Kramarenko, head of the Foreign Ministry's department for political forecasting, said Russia wants the Cold War foes to sign "legally binding agreements guaranteeing that their military potentials will not be targeted against each other" in view of the potential deployment of U.S. missile defense components abroad, the Interfax news agency reported.

President Vladimir Putin last week dismissed Washington's claims that missile defense sites it hopes to establish in Poland and the Czech Republic were intended to counter threats posed by Iran, and he warned that Russia would take countermeasures.

Putin said that the Russian response will be "asymmetrical, but highly efficient." He said that Russia's latest Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles were capable of penetrating missile defenses and added that more-effective weapons systems are being developed.

[More Than A Feeling]

1. Kind of a bad sign when everyone and their uncle wants a non-aggression pact with us.

[BayCityProgressive]

3. Hey just think

Russia wanted one of these pacts with Nazi Germany as well...

[teryang]

2. Defense contractors are loving this...

Ka-ching!