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Russia expects USA to reciprocate for closing of radar
centre in Cuba
Interfax
Moscow, 18 October: Spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Aleksandr Yakovenko has welcomed the statement of US President George W. Bush, who described Moscow's intention to close the radar centre in Lourdes, Cuba, as a sign of the end of the Cold War.
Russia, "naturally expects reciprocal moves from the United States", Yakovenko told the press today.
"American radio-electronic intelligence centres, which were opened in the Cold War epoch and are still functioning, are situated in countries neighbouring Russia," the diplomat said.
"We have said more than once that we have serious questions about the station in Vardoe, Norway," he said.
"The world is changing, and the nature of challenges, which are confronted by the international community and can be neutralized only by joint efforts, are changing as well," Yakovenko noted.
Russia "is ready to build its relations with the United States on a new basis of pragmatic cooperation, which will provide for strategic stability on the planet and take into account the interests of other countries", he said.
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