{{Russian and U.S. defense chiefs signaled on Monday their intention to reconvene long-stalled missile defense talks, the Pentagon said, following a change in U.S. missile defense plans for Europe that has been met cautiously by Moscow.}}<\/p>\n
There have been no meetings at the deputy minister-level since 2011, when six were held, a U.S. defense official told Reuters. <\/p>\n
Talks set for 2012 were canceled because of scheduling conflicts, he said.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed a desire to reconvene the talks, and that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel assured him they would continue and would be carried forward by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Jim Miller.<\/p>\n
“We are very interested in further developments on the European missile defense and our minister offered to restart regular consultations on that between deputy ministers,” Anatoly Antonov, a deputy of Shoigu, was quoted as saying by Russian news agency RIA.<\/p>\n
The news came after a March 16 announcement that the United States would station 14 new anti-missile interceptors in Alaska in response to North Korean provocations, but at the same time forgo a new type of interceptor that would have been deployed in Europe.<\/p>\n
Cold War-era foes Moscow and Washington have long been at loggerheads over the shield in Europe. <\/p>\n
President Barack Obama’s move in 2009 to scale down earlier, Bush-administration plans only offered a short-lived respite. <\/p>\n
Russia’s main concern is that the European shield would weaken its nuclear deterrent.<\/p>\n
Russia’s point man for U.S. relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said on March 21 that the Obama administration’s planned changes brought a new element to the issue.<\/p>\n
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