(RIA Novosti) - Washington sees no reason to deploy elements of its missile shield in Georgia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Wednesday.
Vice-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright earlier said the U.S. was likely to deploy an early warning radar in the Caucasus instead of the Czech Republic "to get the early tracks." He did not specify the country, however.
U.S. President Barack Obama in September scrapped plans to deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, due to a re-assessment of the threat from Iran. Moscow had fiercely opposed the plans as a national security threat.
According to the Obama administration's new plan, land-based missile-defense shields will not be implemented before 2015. Sea-based defenses will operate in the Mediterranean up to 2015.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow recently said the United States was considering Ukraine as a possible site for a radar station as part of its new missile defense configuration in Europe.
