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The US wants European allies to share the costs of missile defence (Photo: US Missile Defense Agency)

Nato to reach out to Russia on missile defence

by Valentina Pop, Brussels,

Instead of criticising a new security treaty between Europe and America, Russia should consider coming under the umbrella of a Nato missile defence shield, the alliance's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday (8 October). Nato leaders will decide in November whether they will share the costs of a US-deployed shield in Europe.

The long-debated shield, which has seen Moscow in the past threatening to deploy nuclear missiles at the Polish border in response, would cost €200 ...

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The US wants European allies to share the costs of missile defence (Photo: US Missile Defense Agency)

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