Russia is dissatisfied with Japan's explanations of US missile defense systems Aegis deployment in the country, and believes that such actions aggravate regional security problems, Vladimir Ermakov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, told Sputnik on Friday.
TOKYO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2018) Russia is dissatisfied with Japan's explanations of US missile defense systems Aegis deployment in the country, and believes that such actions aggravate regional security problems, Vladimir Ermakov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, told Sputnik on Friday.
"We note with regret Japan's increasing involvement into destabilizing plans on newest interceptors and radars creation for the benefit of the US missile defense, elements of which are being deployed at Russian borders. We cannot be satisfied with Japan's explanations as in fact this is not the case of increasing Japanese defense capacity, this is the case of persistently continuing unilateral and uncontrolled enhancement of US global antimissile potential," Ermakov said following bilateral consultations on arms control, held in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.
He specified that the characteristics of the US missile defense systems and the locations where they were being deployed showed that the systems were obviously anti-Russian and anti-Chinese.
