Russia and the USA have ratified the plan of military cooperation

Russia and the USA have ratified the plan of military cooperation
Russia and the USA have signed in Washington the memorandum of military cooperation for 2008. As informs RIA of News, the document has been accepted on results of negotiations between the chief of the Joint Staff of Armed forces of Russia the general of army Jury Baluevski and chairman of Committee of chiefs of staffs of Armed forces the USA admiral Michael Mullen.

The maintenance of the memorandum and bilateral negotiations is not opened under request Mullen, his official representative John Kirby has declared.

The source of RIA of News in Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has not excluded, that Balyebski and Mullen should discuss accommodation of elements of the American antimissile defense in Poland and Czechia against what Russia actively acts.


Visit Baluevski to the USA will be prolonged till December, 7. The Russian general will visit American naval base Kings bay in state Georgia, and also will carry on negotiations with the first assistant to the assistant to the president the USA on national safety James Dzhefri and the assistant to the state secretary on questions of the control over arms and the international safety John Rudom.

Negotiations of the chief of the Russian Joint Staff pass on a background of the become aggravated contradictions between Russia and the USA. On the night of December, 13 Russia will suspend in the territory of the Contract about conventional armaments in Europe. In Moscow assert, that partners on the NATO do not carry out position of the contract and Russia cannot execute it unilaterally any more.

Besides the USA plan to place ten rockets - interceptors in Poland and a radar station in Czechia, motivating it is potential rocket threat on the part of Iran. However, the report of the American special services published one of these days admits, that Iran has stopped works on development of the nuclear weapon in 2003.