Statement by the NATO Secretary General on Missile Defence

BELGIUM –(ENEWPSF)–23 November 2011.  The following statement is attributed to NATO Secretary General Andres Fogh Rasmussen:

I have taken note of President Medvedev’s statement on missile defence. NATO’s missile defence system, which NATO Heads of State and Government agreed to develop last year at the Lisbon Summit, is designed to defend against threats emanating from outside Europe and is not designed to alter the balance of deterrence.