Russia and the United States will hold major consultations on a European missile defense system in Brussels on May 2-5, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the interagency working group under the Russian presidential secretariat for interaction with NATO, told Interfax on Friday.
"This will be an especially intensive week of consultations at the political and military level," said Rogozin, who is also a Russian permanent envoy to NATO.
"Their purpose is to try to advance on the missile defense issue, so as to accelerate preparations for a meeting between the Russia-NATO Council defense ministers on June 9 and, of course, for a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the U.S. on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Deauville, France at the end of May this year," he said.
