MOSCOW. June 7 (Interfax) - NATO Secretary General Fogh Rasmussen's claims of the allegedly increasing number of Russian military sites along the NATO borders are unfounded, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told a Thursday press briefing in Moscow.
"The dangers alleged by the NATO secretary general are totally unfounded. They are rooted in the attempts of alliance countries to reanimate the so-called threat coming from the East, which was characteristic of the Cold War period," he said.
Such allegations disagree with the pledge to attain strategic partnership with Russia made at the NATO Chicago summit, he said.
"In the recent years Russia has seriously reduced the number of heavy armaments deployed in the Kaliningrad region and has made a weighty contribution to the liberation of Europe from the Cold War remnants," he said.
Concerning the deployment of additional armaments declared by then President Dmitry Medvedev in November, Lukashevich said that would depend on the construction of European missile defense by the United States.