Sergei Ivanov (file photo) (NATO)
July 4, 2007 -- Russia says it will not proceed with plans to base missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave if the United States accepts a proposal to cooperate on missile defense.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said today the deployment will not be necessary if Washington abandons plans for missile-defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed the United States share missile-defense structures in Azerbaijan and Russia rather than building its own in Central Europe.
(Interfax, ITAR-TASS, Reuters)
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