Russia 'to work with Nato on missile defence shield'
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the two sides agreed they no longer posed a threat to one another
Russia has agreed to co-operate on Nato's programme to defend against ballistic missile attacks, Nato's chief has said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a Nato summit in Lisbon that the two sides had agreed in writing that they no longer posed a threat to one another.
"For the first time the two sides will be co-operating to defend themselves," Mr Rasmussen said.
The Lisbon summit has been redrawing Nato's focus to face new challenges.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of the summit: "A period of very difficult, tense relations has been overcome."
This is the first Nato summit Russia has attended since the Russia-Georgia war two years ago.
Nato members had earlier agreed on a programme to develop and deploy defences against ballistic missile attack on their territories.
Mr Rasmussen said he had extended an offer to Russia to co-operate on the programme and was "very pleased that [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev has taken up that offer".
Mr Rasmussen said this agreement was of "real political importance" and a "true turning point".
(Any mention of merits/disaster of Ronnie Raygun's presidency in this thread will lead to slaps being handed out.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
My country's policies -- mine or some other president's -- won't change anything anyway. Your country is collapsing, and you know it. Unless the US bails you out, which even the Democrats won't do, you're toast.
So leave the wall up, if you want. It's coming down anyway. And nothing that you do or I do or anyone else does is going to change that.
But thank you, Mr. Gorbachev.
Thank you for letting me be the one who gets to take credit. Thank you for not putting the Soviet Union into a last-gasp aggressive stance. Thank you for making the everyone-saw-it-coming implosion of your nation relatively peaceful.
All I had to do was stand around while the inevitable happened, but I get the credit.
Thank you, Mr. Gorbachev.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
