U.S., Russia Plan Missile Defense Talks for Oct. 12

The United States and Russia are expected to hold high-level missile defense talks next month in Moscow, the Russia & CIS Military Newswire reported today (see GSN, Sept. 24).

“A Russian-American meeting in the 2-plus-2 format involving the two countries’ top foreign policy and defense officials will take place in Moscow on Oct. 12,” a Russian diplomat said yesterday.

U.S. and Russian defense and foreign policy officials plan to meet after missile defense consultations between delegations led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Rood and his Russian counterpart Sergei Kislyak.

U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in early June to hold consultations between political and defense officials to review a proposed missile defense system that the United States plans to deploy in Poland and the Czech Republic. 

The October talks would mark the third round of formal missile defense discussions between the United States and Russia, following earlier meetings in Paris in late July and in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11 (Russia and CIS Military Newswire, Sept. 26).

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