Moscow: Talks between NATO and Russia over US plans for a projected missile defense system in Europe remain at loggerheads, Russia’s Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_297054” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Russian Pres Medvedev addresses soldiers on their first day of duty as Defence Min Serdyukov looks on, during his visit to a missile base in the Saratov region. Reuters”]  [/caption] “So far we have not found a mutually acceptable solution to the missile defence question” and the situation is at a dead end, Serdyukov said on the first day of a three-day conference on the issue in Moscow. NATO is to declare the first operational readiness of its Euro-missile defense system at a NATO summit in Chicago May 20, an indication that the alliance is willing to go ahead with the system without Russian accord, he said. IANS
“So far we have not found a mutually acceptable solution to the missile defense question” and the situation is at a dead end, Russian Defence Minister Serdyukov said.
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