Talks between NATO and Russia over U.S. plans for a projected missile defense system in Europe remain at loggerheads, Russia’s Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Thursday.
“So far we have not found a mutually acceptable solution to the missile defense question,” and the situation is at a dead end,” Serdyukov said on the first day of a three-day conference on the issue in Moscow.
NATO is to declare the first operational readiness of its Euro-missile defense system at a NATO summit in Chicago on May 20, an indication that the alliance is willing to go ahead with the system without Russian accord, he said.
Russia’s view of European missile shield