Agence France-Presse,
MOSCOW: Moscow is ready to broad abandon plans to renew its nuclear missile arsenal if Washington stops deployment of a controversial missile shield, a top Russian general was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Friday.
“If the Americans give up their plans to deploy the third position area and other elements of strategic missile defence, then undoubtedly we will respond in kind,” said Nikolai Solovtsov, commander of Russia's strategic missile forces.
“And an array of programmes, expensive programmes, will simply not be necessary for us,” he added. The term “third position area” refers to planned US missile defence facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.
