Such agreements "open way to the modernization of the U.S. radar installations in Thule (Greenland)," the Foreign Ministry noted.
"The U.S. side often claimed that its new anti-missile defense system is not aimed against Russia. Meanwhile, the geography of the deployment of the radar installation points to the anti-Russian potential in the U.S. anti-missile defense," the Foreign Ministry added.
"In the conditions of significant strategic nuclear reductions, which Russia and the U.S. agreed upon, we should not rule out threat to Russia's containment forces in the future," the ministry said.
"In this connection the Russian side will thoroughly analyze the situation from the point of view of its security and reserved the right to take all measures to maintain it at a proper level," the Foreign Ministry stressed.
On Friday, August 6 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Denmark's Foreign Minister and Greenland's Vice Premier signed the Defense of Greenland agreement updating the 1951 agreement. According to the press service of the U.S. Department of State, the new agreement opens way to the modernization of radar installations at the Thule airbase, which is to maintain the U.S. anti-missile project.
