Vladimir Putin on Thursday seized the initiative in the dispute over US plans to site anti-missile defences in central Europe<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe journal d\u00e9veloppe ensuite la proposition de Poutine, qui est de regrouper le complexe de d\u00e9fense anti-missiles destin\u00e9 \u00e0 l’Europe Centrale dans une ancienne station-radar d’Azerba\u00efdjan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abMr Putin said he had secured agreement from Azerbaijan to use the radar as part of a collaborative system that would protect Europe from incoming missiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIf Washington accepted the proposal, he would not have to carry out his recent threat to retarget Russian missiles against Europe, Mr Putin said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb This will make it unnecessary for us to place our offensive complexes along the border with Europe, Mr Putin told reporters, standing beside his US counterpart.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Bush described the proposal as interesting and said both sides had agreed to engage in strategic dialogue to share ideas over missile defence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbStephen Hadley, US national security adviser, said the proposal demonstrated Russian willingness to engage in real co-operation on missile defence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut the two sides were at odds over the potential role of the Azerbaijan radar. Mr Putin portrayed it as an alternative to a planned US facility in the Czech Republic that Russia opposes. But Mr Hadley said only that Azerbaijan could make a contribution to the broader system.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPavel Felgenhauer, a defence analyst in Moscow, said the Gabala radar station involved in the proposal was not a suitable substitute for the Czech Republic as it was too close to Iran one of the countries Washington says its missile shield is designed to defend against. It was also too far from the planned US interceptor base in Poland to be viable. The Pentagon won’t want this at all, he said. The White House will not reject it out of hand, but I don’t forecast any agreement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUS officials sought to portray the proposal as a breakthrough in efforts to secure Moscow’s backing for its missile shield and a first step towards serious negotiations about co-operation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut it appeared highly unlikely that Washington would sacrifice its Czech base or put a key part of its missile shield in the hands of a former Soviet state.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCommentant les circonstances de l’annonce de la proposition russe, le m\u00eame Financial Times<\/em> d\u00e9crit les conditions o\u00f9 Poutine a fait cette d\u00e9claration, lors de la conf\u00e9rence de presse commune Bush-Poutine apr\u00e8s leur entretien. La forme du commentaire laisse appara\u00eetre que les Am\u00e9ricains n’\u00e9taient au courant de rien avant la rencontre, et il semble bien que Poutine en ait parl\u00e9 pour la premi\u00e8re fois \u00e0 Bush directement, laissant celui-ci sans r\u00e9action mesur\u00e9e et, bien s\u00fbr, sans que les experts US aient pu \u00e9tudier la proposition et \u00e9ventuellement \u00e9lever des objections : \u00abThe offer raised the prospect of unprecedented military co-operation between the US and Russia and provided a potential solution to their bitter dispute over missile defence. But after the two leaders finished their news conference, it was obvious the proposal had caught the US by surprise.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes Russes ont bien compris que cette crise est d’abord une affaire d’influence et de communication, que la rh\u00e9torique et la fa\u00e7on de s’en servir comptent bien plus que les missiles et les radars. Leur proposition a, pour eux, l’avantage de r\u00e9duire, pour l’instant, l’interpr\u00e9tation type nouvelle Guerre froide \u00e0 un exercice vulgaire de propagande. La partie, la crise Euromissiles-II, s’annonce extr\u00eamement complexe et diverse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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L’entretien Bush-Poutine au G8 semblait fait surtout pour tenter de dissiper une mauvaise humeur g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et les divers bruits de tension, essentiellement \u00e0 propos du r\u00e9seau anti-missiles US en Europe. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 beaucoup plus loin \u00e0 cause des Russes, qui ont fait une proposition-surprise qui, comme c’est sa fonction, a surpris la partie am\u00e9ricaniste.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4056,6754,5433,6484,916,6755],"class_list":["post-68882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-antimissiles","tag-azerbaidjan","tag-bmd","tag-euromissiles-ii","tag-poutine","tag-radars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}