Source: Hurriyet
Russia will build a reliable aerospace defense system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said yesterday.
Rogozin, recently appointed as a deputy prime minister to oversee Russia’s defense industry, said on his Twitter account that the global security conference being held in Munich had failed to come to a compromise on creating a European missile defense system.
Rogozin quoted NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen as saying NATOwould continue “to develop a missile defense system because we feel a strong responsibility to protect our populations effectively against the missile threat.”
“Well, as for us, we also feel responsibility for protecting our population from your missile threat and will create a reliable air and space defense,” Rogozin, who served as Russia’s envoy to NATO before his new appointment, wrote on his Twitter account.
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