This month Romania has been a source of unpleasant news for Moscow. President Traian Basescu agreed to host ground-based medium-range missile interceptors on Romanian territory as part of the U.S. missile defense project. The plans call for the ground-based version of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD) with SM-3 missiles to be deployed in Romania by 2015.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have discussed the new arms cuts treaty and the upcoming Mideast quartet meeting in Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.