Russia Repeats Missile Warnings Ahead of Bush-Medvedev Meeting

CNS NEWS.com ^ | Friday, November 21, 2008 | Sergei Blagov

[Cindy]

Moscow (CNSNews.com) – Ahead of an expected meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President Bush in Peru this weekend, Russian officials and military commanders continue to make public comments about deploying missiles in Europe in response to U.S. missile defense plans.

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said Tuesday that the U.S. plans for missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic leave Russia with no option but to take steps to neutralize the emerging threat near its western borders.

The day after the U.S. presidential election, Medvedev in a state of the nation address announced plans to deploy Iskander short-range missiles in the Kaliningrad region, the exclave of Russian territory between Lithuania and Poland, in response to the U.S. missile defense plans.

But the Kremlin went on to say the Iskanders would only be deployed if the U.S. goes ahead with its plans.

[stockpirate]

Considering Bush’s recent sellout of our country via the nationalizations, G20 etc, I wonder how he plans to do more damage with this meeting.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Don't worry. He won't betray American interests by capitulating to the demands of our terrorist supporting Russian enemies. That's Obama’s job.

[Tailgunner Joe]

World Bank chief: Better ties with Russia a must - BERLIN, (AP) — Russia's ties with the United States and the European Union must be improved to ensure stability, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday.

"I hope relations with Russia will be guided by a farsighted vision that can create durable, peaceful, mutually beneficial ties," Zoellick said at a speech at Berlin's Humboldt University. Zoellick said the global economic crisis shows that the world needed "reinvented global frameworks, to weather the storms of economic changes or climate or insecurity." "Today's financial crisis could be an opportunity to develop sounder economic relations that might be a foundation, with Russia's help, to build cooperation in solving common problems," he said.

He said recent summits of G-20 leaders and the G-20 finance ministers were examples of the kind of action needed to stabilize the world economy, and emphasized the need to include developing countries. "As the financial crisis has shown, we need more than the Group of Seven to address today's 21st Century problems," he said. "Rising economic powers such as China, India, and Russia must be part of the solution."