NATO Chief Sees Two Separate Systems in European Missile Shield

NATO Chief Sees Two Separate Systems in European Missile Shield

from GSN Daily News

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen yesterday said the alliance's plan for a European missile shield involves two separate but collaborative programs, one operated by the military alliance and the other by Russia, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, Jan. 12).
Moscow and Brussels in November decided to work on researching and potentially setting up a continent-wide program for missile defense. An outline for what that collaboration would entail is expected no later than June.
"By exchanging information we share a bigger, wider picture of the skies above Europe," Rasmussen said. "By developing potential synergy between two systems we would improve the protection of the allied and Russian territories."