KALININGRAD, Russia. May 23 (Interfax) - The Russia-NATO project to set up a joint missile defense for Europe is "an absolutely concrete practical test" for whether the two sides are capable of building a joint "undivided" security system for the continent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
"If we create a [missile defense] within whose limits there is no guarantee that it won't work against any of its participants, it will mean we are moving toward what you called a split," Lavrov said at a meeting with students at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, administrative center of the Russian Baltic exclave of the same name.