KYIV. March 4 (Interfax-AVN) - The United States does not seriously consider at the moment prospects of cooperating with Ukraine in building a global missile defense system, said Professor Steven E.Meyer of the National Defense University in Washington.
No one in the American administration considers seriously the prospect of starting dialogue with Kyiv on cooperation in missile defense, he said at a news conference on Wednesday.
President Viktor Yanukovych will hardly accept such an invitation, he said.
If agreements existed between the U.S. and Ukraine on building a global missile defense system, even more negative questions would arise in relations between Moscow and Washington, he said.
Meyer also said that President Barack Obama had revised the plan to deploy elements of missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
That was an important step. If the U.S. administration takes missile defense seriously, it cannot disregard the fact that the decision to locate missiles in Romania does not allay, either, disagreements on this issue with Moscow, he said.