MOSCOW. Nov 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Sergei Karaganov, the head of the Foreign and Defense Council, does not believe that the modification of the ABM Treaty threatens Russia's interests.
He believes that Moscow "can wait as the Americans test their systems, because they will run out of either money or technologies, or these systems will turn out to be ineffective from the point of view of Russia's direct interests."
Karaganov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday that if one considers all the factors involved, "it will turn out that 99% of this does not concern us, although it seems that it concerns us 100%." "Therefore, we can look at the creation of the U.S. NMD system not only with attention, but also with humor," Karaganov said.
Karaganov thinks that it is "very significant" that the summit has resulted "in an even warmer climate of trust." He believes that "for both countries this is more important than anything."