From Deutsche-Welle:Russia is prepared to make plans to deploy missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave "disappear" if the US drops plans to base part of its missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia's prime minister says.
If the new administration of US president-elect Barack Obama drops deployment plans for a missile shield in what Russia considers to be within its sphere of influence, then "questions of our retaliatory measures will disappear by themselves," Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told journalists at a forum in St Petersburg on Monday, Nov. 24.
Putin is considered by many to have the last say on Russian foreign policy.
Washington has failed in multiple rounds of negotiations to calm Moscow's concerns about the missile system it says needs to be based in eastern Europe to protect against threats from rogue state's such as Iran.
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My Comment: The ball is now in President-elect Obama's court.
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