Russia-NATO summit conditional on missile defence agreement

The Russia-NATO summit that’s due in Chicago in May this year will largely depend on whether the parties will reach agreement on missile defence plans for Europe.The decision will be made by the future Russian President, the high-ranking Russian Foreign Ministry official, Yuri Gorlach, told a news conference in the Moscow region earlier today.Missile defence cooperation could radically improve Russia-NATO relations, but efforts to reach agreement to that end have so far proved futile, the diplomat said. He pointed out that Moscow is concerned about the US and NATO plans to deploy a missile defence system in Europe, a system that may target Russian strategic nuclear forces.