Russia and the United States are still odds on the United States planned anti-missile defense system in Europe after talks in Moscow this week with U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, a senior aide to President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon met with President Putin and the Russian senior officials of the highest level of face-to-face-to-face talks, Obama in tense relations with Moscow, the beginning of a new month.
"No progress on the issue of missile defense," Putin's foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said, according to the news agency RIA.
Moscow missile defense system in Europe, the United States deployed with NATO, mainly in order to deal with the potential threat from Iran, may damage Russia's security, destruction of the balance of power after the Cold War.
The Pentagon said last month that it will stand the additional missile interception systems to deal with the North Korean threat in Alaska, and at the same time to give up part of the shield will be deployed in Europe, a new type of interceptor.
NATO and U.S. officials expressed the hope that this change can help eliminate the to Russia called main concern: the system of interceptors to shoot down long-range nuclear missiles could eventually end their standoff.
However, Ushakov said in the message, delivered Donilon contains little new "does not make us feel very happy", but he added that Russia will further study laid a United States proposal, he said, RIA.
He did not advice. In the past, the United States provides a way for cooperation in missile defense systems, including joint threat assessment, but rejected Russia's call, the joint tightly integrated system.
U.S. missile defense program has been years of relations irritation.
Odds countries at war in Syria, has become increasingly tense relations, on human rights issues, Putin's critics say is a repression of dissidents, as he returned to the President in May last year.
However, in a sign of efforts to improve relations, the White House said Donilon After the talks, Putin and Obama will hold a bilateral summit in September, the G20 summit held in Russia, during the meeting, the G8 summit in June .
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