Rose: Malginov is wrong, anti-missile system has no capacity to harm Russia's strategic deterrent potential

US Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose on Monday said in Bucharest, that the ambassador of the Russian Federation in Romania, Oleg Malginov is ?wrong' when saying that the anti-missile system implemented by the United States of America is a threat and a challenge to Moscow, as this has no capacity to harm Russia's strategic deterrent potential.

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Our anti-missile defence system has no technical capacity to harm the strategic deterrent potential of Russia. Period. The ambassador is wrong. (...) The US anti-missile defence is conceived against the threats from countries such as North Korea or the threats from the Middle East. Our anti-missile defence system's are not aiming at Russia. (...) We've tried to explain that to the Russians for several times, yet they still don't believe us, said Rose on Monday, in a meeting with the journalists at the US Embassy in Bucharest.

On the other hand, the US official reminded that the US have shown very clearly that they would not accept limitations of their own systems, but that they develop limited defence systems conceived to administrate limited threats.

If one looks at the number of interceptors we implement ? both with long and short range ? it's clear that they are focused on limited threats and wouldn't have, be it only from their numbers point of view, the capacity to deny the potential of Russia's strategic deterrent potential. (...) Should the United States really wanted to try to deny Russia's strategic deterrent potential, they would have needed another type of anti-missile defence system, added Rose.

As regards Romania, Frank Rose stated that it is a NATO ally, and the United States will do...