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"If the global missile defense program continues to be implemented without any adjustments, even as talks on the Iranian nuclear program are making headway, ... then the specific motives for establishing the European missile defense system will become obvious for everyone."
Lavrov was more soft-spoken than the official statement issued by his own ministry a week before on April 10. That statement quoted President Obama's public assurance in a speech in Prague in April 2009 about how the elimination of the "Iranian threat" would also eliminate the main reason for the deployment of a missile defense system in Europe.
The Russian Foreign Ministry statement adds: "Against this background, the statements that 'the missile defense program is not directed against Russia' look even less convincing."
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