BRUSSELS. Oct 18 (Interfax) - Russia's NATO Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin is expected to meet on Tuesday with Croat President Ivo Josipovic within the framework of consultations with the NATO members' heads of state as the Kremlin's special envoy for interaction on missile defense.
"I will meet on Tuesday, October 18, with the Croat president, top foreign-policy officials and defense minister," Rogozin told Interfax ahead of his visit to Zagreb.
Consultations will continue in the NATO capitals in search for Russia and NATO's cooperation in creating a European missile defense system, he said.
Commenting earlier in an interview with Interfax on Russia's demands for legal guarantees that elements of the American missile shield are not targeted against Russia and the American side's reluctance to provide such guarantees, Rogozin said that in any case Moscow is expecting "security guarantees to be given by scrapping plans to build what can damage our relations, if not by a legally binding agreement."
"We are expecting changes in this project that would fill the partners in it with the feeling that this project is a source of security. The best the United States can do is not implement this project at all," Rogozin said.