While staying in Moscow with working visit, PMR's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Yastrebchak commented upon the statement of the President of the RF Dmitriy Medvedev in connection with plans of the USA on deployment of system of missile defense in Europe during the interview to REGNUM Informational Agency.
“We acquainted ourselves with the statement of the President of the RF Dmitriy Medvedev in connection with plans of the USA on deployment of system of missile defense in Europe attentively. We consider these statements to be absolutely reasonable and adequate in conditions of current situation, because security must be indivisible, and indivisible for everyone. If one country is trying to provide its security at the expense of another country, moreover, these actions directly endamage the security of Russian Federation, of course, the symmetrical response must be given,” Head of PMR's MFA told on November 24, during the interview to REGNUM Informational Agency.
“Within this context the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic again confirms its readiness to grant conditions, infrastructure for creating more favourable regime of provision of Russian security on our territory, including that in context of symmetrical actions of Russia in response to the actions of the USA on deployment of system of missile defense in Europe, in case that there will be corresponding address, interest from the Russian side. We really have corresponding infrastructure, in particular, Mayak radiolocating complex in Grigoriopol region, which may become one of constituent components of this system of symmetrical actions,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR declared.
REGNUM Informational Agency reminds, that as early as in February 2010, at the beginning of the negotiation between the USA and Romania on missile defense systems, which ended in May 2011 with the Agreement on deployment of elements of American system of missile defense on the territory of former Soviet base in the south of Romania, Pridnestrovien President Igor Smirnov announced, that Tiraspol would not object, if Russia wanted to place Iskander cruise missiles on Pridnestrovien territory in response to American system of missile defense in Romania.
