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Russia wants U.S. to sign deal saying militaries don't target each other AP Russia wants to negotiate a deal with the United States saying their militaries will not target each other, as a way to assuage concerns over U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in central Europe, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Alexander Kramarenko, head of the Foreign Ministry's department for political forecasting, said Russia wants the Cold War foes to sign "legally binding agreements guaranteeing that their military potentials will not be targeted against each other" in view of the potential deployment of U.S. missile defense components abroad, the Interfax news agency reported. President Vladimir Putin last week dismissed Washington's claims that missile defense sites it hopes to establish in Poland and the Czech Republic were intended to counter threats posed by Iran, and he warned that Russia would take countermeasures. Putin said that the Russian response will be "asymmetrical, but highly efficient." He said that Russia's latest Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles were capable of penetrating missile defenses and added that more-effective weapons systems are being developed. In 2002, Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush signed a treaty obliging both sides to cut their strategic nuclear weapons by about two-thirds by 2012, down to 1,700 to 2,200 missiles. But Russian-U.S. relations have steadily worsened since then over disagreements about Iraq and other global crises, and U.S. concerns about an increasingly authoritarian streak in Russia's domestic policy. Kramarenko said Russia would adjust its foreign policy to respond to the planned missile defense sites and the movement of NATO military infrastructure closer to Russia, Interfax reported. Poland and the Czech Republic are among several former Soviet satellite states or republics that have joined NATO in recent years. "Our relations with NATO depend on to what degree the alliance in deed — and not in declaration — takes Russian security interests into account (and) how effectively the tasks of stabilizing Afghanistan and countering the threat of illegal drugs from that country are resolved," Interfax quoted him as saying. ---------------------------------------------------
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