Russian President Medvedev has said he’s willing to discuss the proposed US missile shield with Washington. But he added that any deal linking those talks with negotiations regarding Iran would not be productive.
Russian President Dimitry Medvedev’s comments came in response to a New York Times report that US President Barack Obama had written a secret letter to his Russian counterpart offering to halt the planned missile shield, which would be located mainly in Poland and the Czech Republic, in return for Moscow’s help in stopping Iran from developing long-range nuclear weapons.
The Russian president welcomed the “positive signals” coming from the Obama administration with which he said he hoped to reach “agreements.” “Haggling,” however, was “not productive,” added Medvedev on Tuesday, March 3.
The Russian president also said Obama’s letter had not presented the issue in such a way.
This is really too bad – both the Polish and Czech leaders have spent a fair amount of political capital by supporting U.S. policies and they have sent troops to Iraq. I wonder if they will agree to send any troops to Afghanistan. With friends like these, who needs enemies.