02/04/12: The San Francisco Chronicle reports that NATO leaders have downplayed Moscow's fears that a new Europe-based missile defense system represents a threat to Russia, and vowed to move ahead with it. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Saturday that the alliance expects to have first elements of the defense system up and running by its summit in Chicago in May, and that it would continue to work on getting Russia on board with the plan. "We will continue to develop a NATO missile defense system because we feel a strong responsibility to protect our populations effectively against the missile threat," he said.
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