The United States is "very interested" in working with Russia to establish a Joint Data Exchange Center that would enable the nations to share information on missile launches, Clinton said, adding that Washington has invited a Russian delegation to view a defense site in Colorado.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his nation would require additional details on the new missile defense plan to know whether collaboration could occur, AFP reported.
"The more we get to know this new plan, the easier and faster it will be for us to reach an understanding of whether we can jointly develop a project that would unite not just Russia and the United States, but the Europeans," Lavrov said.
A shared missile defense system, he said, "would allow collective work on the analysis of existing missile threats, and on the basis of this analysis, the development of measures to counter these threats" (Agence France-Presse II/Spacewar.com, Oct. 13).
"We want to ensure that we answer every question asked by the Russian military or government ... because we want to be as transparent as possible," Hillary said
