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Article: Russia says safeguarding national security irrelevant to "cold war"
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 13, 2007
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Russia says safeguarding national security irrelevant to "cold
war"
MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Allegations that Russia is reverting
to the "cold war" times are baseless, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday in an interview with BBC.
"It is strange to hear claims that we are returning to the 'cold
war' times. We are doing everything necessary to guarantee our
national security, be it the patrol flights of our bombers or the
cruise of our naval squadron in the Mediterranean," Lavrov said.
At the same time, Moscow sees that "strategic nuclear forces and
the U.S. ABM system are being moved to Eastern Europe without any
reasons whatsoever", he said.
The NATO infrastructure is ...