Russia: US wants new arms race
30/05/2007 20:48  - (SA)  

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Potsdam - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of restarting the arms race with its plans to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe.

"I think that those who are professionally aware of this problem understand that there is nothing ludicrous about this issue because the arms race is starting again.

"Strategic stability is being damaged," Lavrov said at a press conference after a meeting of G8 foreign ministers outside Berlin on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was also attending the Potsdam meeting, on Tuesday described Russian concerns about the shield as "ludicrous".

Washington wants to base the shield in the former Soviet states of Poland and the Czech Republic.

- AFP

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