New York, September 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has said that Polish and Czech people should whether missile defense systems should be deployed on the territory of Poland and the Czech Republic.
The Ukrainian president said this in his address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday.
In answer to a question regarding his attitude to
the decision of the U.S. administration not to deploy the missile
defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, Yuschenko said that
he would try to answer the question tactfully so as not to offend
anybody.
“[The question of whether] to deploy [missile
defense systems] on the territory of Poland and the Czech Republic is a
matter for the Polish and Czech people. If their interests coincided
with those of the U.S. administration, it would be very good,”
Yuschenko said.
The president said it was a good signal when there
was talk of “any defense initiative, including one that concerns
European continent.”
