BAKU, Azerbaijan: Russia wants to extend its lease of a Soviet-built military radar in Azerbaijan after a current lease agreement ends, the Russian foreign minister said Thursday.
Sergey Lavrov said on a trip to Azerbaijan that Russia would like to continue using the early-warning radar in Gabala after the lease expires in 2012.
He said Russia's proposal to the U.S. to jointly use the facility to monitor missile threats remains on the table. Moscow cast the 2007 proposal as an alternative to the U.S. plans to locate missile defense sites in Eastern Europe, a plan Russia has fiercely opposed.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
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