MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - Moscow is viewing the material published on the Pentagon's website about Russian and Chinese developments in the sphere of anti-ballistic missile defense as Washington's attempt to justify its own activities in a military buildup on a global scale, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"We regard this publication as part of the orchestrated disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting Russia. There are clear unscrupulous attempts to attribute to us some aggressive and dangerous intentions, this time in the area of anti-missile defense," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary on its website on Friday.
The publication "is motivated by the desire of the Americans to justify their own large-scale and costly programs for creating and upgrading weapons and their plans to expand military presence around the globe," it said.
"Such bogus stories in the media traditionally lack any in-depth analysis or even a balanced reflection of the situation," the Foreign Ministry said, reminding that it was Washington that dismantled the 1972 ABM treaty, "destroying one of the pillars of the global strategic stability system," it said.
"The publication, of course, does not say a word about this. It is also silent on the fact of the U.S. implementing numerous destabilizing anti-missile projects," the Foreign Ministry said.
"U.S. military men are placing their strategic anti-missile infrastructure throughout the world, not only in the U.S. national territory, which ensures its global character. They also cherish the ideas of developing a space segment of their ABM [anti-ballistic missile] defense, virtually assuming a prospect of placing strike weapons in space," it said.
"It must be realized that the ABM architecture being built up by the United States is changing the strategic balance of forces in offensive arms, creating serious additional risks for global stability and contributing to the formation of dangerous preconditions for widening the spiral of the nuclear and space arms race," it said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called on "Washington to take a responsible stance, to have a critical look at its anti-missile plans, the fulfillment of which will not consolidate the security of the U.S. or their allies." Moscow expressed readiness to "discuss the anti-missile issues with the U.S. within the framework of bilateral strategic dialogue."