WASHINGTON. Jan 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia and the United States could cooperate in developing missile defense systems, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
"In theory, there is the chance to cooperate in the missile defense area on a bilateral basis. This work [for arranging such cooperation] is continuing, and I am not in a position to say when it could be finished," Ivanov said at a press conference in Washington on Wednesday.
Such cooperation should take into account "the parties' interests concerning intellectual property, sensitive information, and so on," he said.
"Russia and the U.S. earlier maintained military-technical cooperation in a very limited format as well. We have no fundamental objections to development of this cooperation in the future. In this sense, we don't have any black lists of countries with which arms trade is impossible," Ivanov said.