The United States tortured Russia with Europrop: the Russian Federation demands not to "mark" its territory and threatens the breakdown of the Obama and Medvedev agreement

Moscow is unhappy with the reaction of the United States and NATO to its proposals for the joint development of the European missile defense system. Americans refuse to reinforce the words that Europrop will not be directed against Russia, legal guarantees. And without this, Moscow threatens to withdraw from the contract to reduce strategic offensive weapons signed by Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, and take retaliatory measures. Thus, the main achievement of the "rebooting" of bilateral relations may be crossed out by the new arms race.

In Moscow, the USA is disappointed to provide Russia with legal guarantees of non -focus against it of the American missile defense system. “Washington’s reaction is disappointing us: this reaction is negative,” said Sergey Ryabkov, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Monday, speaking in the State Duma. His words quoted by Interfax .

According to the diplomat, the Americans insist on launching practical cooperation on the pro without any preliminary conditions and believe that this cooperation in itself will become a guarantee of Russia's security and legal framework for this is not needed for this. “We cannot establish our safety on political promises and assurances of another country,” the Russian diplomat emphasized in this regard.

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“Just start cooperation, to establish interaction on specific projects, without legal guarantees of the non -focus of the future system against our security, we cannot,” he said. Ryabkov noted that some political statements are not enough, the legal framework is necessary.

Ryabkov recalled that recently agreements were reached between the United States and Romania on the beginning of the placement of ground-based mobile complexes in 2015. In this regard, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation emphasized that Russia is faced with the policy of "committed facts" by the West, which leaves less and less opportunities to take into account its opinion on the structure of Europrop, ITAR-TASS reports.

The deputy minister noted that "the need to deploy systems about the United States and NATO should meet the level of a real rather than a hypothetical threat." “Otherwise, this allows you to doubt the reliability of the declared goals of the project,” Ryabkov concluded. According to him, the formation of Europrop, without taking into account the opinion of Russia, can devalue the decisions of the Lisbon summit on the cooperation of Russia and the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance in the field of missile defense.

If no shifts in the negotiation process are followed, Moscow thinks over a number of response measures. Firstly, the authorities believe that the development of a pro and NATO system and NATO, without taking into account the opinion of the Russian Federation, can become a full-fledged basis for Russia's withdrawal from the START contract. "The new DSNV itself can become a hostage to the so -called American phased adaptive approach," said Sergey Ryabkov.

He noted that the possibility of exit in connection with such conditions is spelled out in the contract itself. Secondly, without a compromise in Europrop, it is impossible to talk about a further reduction in strategic weapons. "Without the development and implementation of the corresponding understandings, it is unlikely that it will be possible to talk about any further steps to reduce and limit weapons," Ryabkov said, speaking in the State Duma.

Thirdly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the United States and NATO violate the balance of power in Europe and force Russia to response. "In this situation, we will be forced to take the necessary measures in order to restore the impaired balance of forces," the diplomat said.

He noted that the Russian side makes every effort to avoid such a development of events. “It is clear that such a scenario would be extremely undesirable for us,” Ryabkov emphasized. Also, in the process of speech, he noted that "there is still time to agree."

The Permanent Representative of Russia at NATO asked "not to climb and not to mark" the territory of the Russian Federation

The action on the United States and NATO should not apply to the territory of the Russian Federation, the Permanent Representative of Russia at the North Atlantic Alliance Dmitry Rogozin, speaking at a meeting of the "round table" in the State Duma on Monday. “We also have, like the United States, our serious achievements in this area, an aerospace defense is being formed, so we did not ask anyone to climb and“ marking ”our territory,” said Rogozin, who heads the working group under the administration of the President of the Russian Federation for NATO interaction in the field of pro.

As Rogozin emphasized, Natovskaya’s strikes “should not crawl into the territory of the Russian Federation, and NATO and the USA should not have the opportunity to destroy any aerospace targets over the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation.” Rogozin drew attention to the fact that NATO does not transfer his right to provide security services to those who are not a member of this organization. “But we do not want our safety problems for us to solve us,” said the Permanent Representative.

"We cannot understand why if it suddenly outlines that the threat is supposedly from the southern direction, then why are shock missile systems is supposed to be located in the Baltic region," Rogozin said. Russia must obtain guarantees of the non -focus of Europrop to its territory, and these guarantees should be clear, since the Russian Federation is not involved in this system; Or Russia should be inside this system, Rogozin believes.

According to him, on those schemes that are currently prepared as part of the Alliance, the radius of action is anti-throat at the United States, if they are located in northern Europe, reaches the Ural mountains. "If you want to ensure your safety and the safety of the Allies in Europe, then limit the radius of the action of your system your own territory; we did not authorize to protect us, we will somehow deal with our risks and threats," Rogozin emphasized.

He also noted that the Alliance does not give direct, specific and reasoned answers to questions clearly posed by the Russian side. In particular, Moscow is interested in what conditions is created in Europe. And in this regard, Rogozin said, we must have reliable guarantees that this system, which is allegedly created against the "bad guys", will not be directed against the Russian strategic nuclear potential.

These guarantees, he said, should be based on the criteria for evaluating the system created, on understanding the technical capabilities of the pro, the place where it will be located, the speeds of intercepting missiles and their number. However, while the Russian side has no answers to these questions, Rogozin said.

“We have something else - the answer is that the complexity of legal guarantees on the part of American partners is that there are problems in the Senate, in Congress, there is a pre -election year, they say it is impossible to ratify this agreement, but we are not asking about this. We want to know the configuration of this anti -missile system,” he said.