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NATO denies anti-missile program with Russia ISN SECURITY WATCH (14/04/05) - NATO officials said on Thursday that the alliance had no plans for a joint anti-missile defense system with Russia. The denial comes just a day after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said his country would work with NATO to develop a theater anti-missile system. "We plan to create an effective battlefield anti-missile system in Europe. This system will protect all the areas on the European continent that can be attacked by missiles," Ivanov told journalists in Yaroslavl, Russia on Tuesday. But NATO military experts said such claims did not represent the real level of relations and military cooperation between the alliance and Russia. Sources say both sides are conducting lower-level preparations for cooperation in future crises situations using joint technologies and common command structures. "NATO and Russia are working together to develop procedures and structures to conduct theater missile defense (TMD) activities in a crisis response operation outside NATO and Russian territory. But it is premature to suggest that the cooperation will result in a joint TMD system," an alliance air defense expert told ISN Security Watch on Thursday. Two years ago, NATO and Russia agreed to conduct joint operations in third countries when necessary, and to cooperate against various military threats, including terrorism. Alliance officials said that preparations and tests were needed to see if both sides could successfully and effectively create command structures to coordinate and conduct joint operations, because of the different types of military terminologies, concepts, and technologies used. Last year, those tests began under the aegis of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), and the Theatre Missile Defence Ad Hoc Working Group conducted the first exercise in March 2004 at the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC) in Colorado Springs in the US. The second exercise in March this year took place at De Peel Airbase in the Netherlands. Russia has also offered to host a TMD Command Post Exercise (CPX) in the second half of 2006. Over 50 participants from 10 NATO nations and the Russian Federation took part in last month's exercise, with additional support and personnel provided by the NATO Military Authorities (NMAs) and the tri-national Extended Air Defense Task Force (EADTF). The CPX is a computer-assisted, real-time event that focuses on command and control of forces. It is one program that is expected to provide the basis for future procedures for joint operations in the area of theater missile defense. Over €3 million has already been committed to the Interoperability Studies and Exercise program. (By Ekrem Krasniqi in Brussels) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
