(Russian President) Medvedev: No missile deployment if Obama drops anti-missile shield [View All]

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Source: DPA

Russia will not deploy missiles in its European enclave of Kaliningrad if US president-elect Barack Obama cancels the planned American anti-missile defence system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published Thursday in the French daily Le Figaro.

"We are prepared to drop our decision to deploy missiles at Kaliningrad if the new American administration decides to abandon its anti-missile system," Medvedev said.

He noted that, based on early reactions, Obama was "thinking about it."

In a response to the US anti-missile defence system, Medvedev has threatened to deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad.

The Russian president said Moscow was willing to consider "a global defence system with the United States, the EU nations and the Russian Federation."

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