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"After the Barack Obama administration... developed a new missile defense line, new possibilities appeared to return to our initial idea, which stipulated a joint analysis of missile risks," he told a news conference.

Moscow offered the use of the Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan and the Armavir radar station in Russia"s Krasnodar Territory as alternatives to now-scrapped U.S. plans for a missile shield in Central Europe, but Washington had said they could be used as "supplements," if at all.

The chief of the U.S. missile defense agency said the radar site in Azerbaijan is too close to Iran to serve as an adequate replacement for the proposed facility in the Czech Republic.

The radar"s surveillance covers Iran, Turkey, India, Iraq and the entire Middle East. It allows not only detection of the launch of a missile, but also to track the whole of its trajectory so as to enable a ballistic missile defense system to intercept an offensive strike. The radar station

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