MOSCOW. Jan 26 (Interfax) - Moscow took note of a statement by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who said that the deployment of Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region in response to the deployment of the European missile-defense system is a waste of money, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
"They [the statements] did not pass unnoticed by us," he said at a briefing in Moscow on Thursday.
"Here Mr. Fogh Rasmussen has clearly shifted the emphases and failed to mention the cause-effect relationship: if NATO does not create a missile-defense system that is capable to weaken the Russian strategic potential, there will be no need for us to take precautionary measures, including those of a military-technical nature," the Russian diplomat said.