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US NMDs in Romania will sour relations with Brussels and Moscow

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Feb 5, 2010 09:40 Moscow Time
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Romania’s agreement to deploy elements of the US national missile defence system on its soil will worsen Bucharest’s relations with Brussels and Moscow, says Romania’s former Defence Minister Teodor Anastasiu in an interview with a Romanian TV channel. Militarily, the decision will help boost national security. It is an important move in relations with the United States, but it will complicate Romania’s relations with Europe and Russia, he said. When asked by reporters to comment on the decision, the former Romanian president Ion Iliescu said he would object to the move. The incumbent Romanian president Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania had agreed to deploy surveillance systems and interceptor missiles that form part of the new US national missile defence system. The new system is expected to become operational as early as 2015, Basescu said, so we will shortly start talks with the United States on concluding a relevant agreement. Earlier it was Poland and the Czech Republic, where the US was to have deployed its missile defence systems.     

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