Russia, Nato missile talks reach 'dead-end'

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