U.S. shield makes Europe "powder keg": Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe would turn the continent into "a powder keg".
"We consider it harmful and dangerous to turn Europe into a powder keg and to stuff it with new weapons," Putin told visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates at the Kremlin.
"It creates new and unnecessary risks for the whole system of international and European relations," he told Socrates, whose country takes over the rotating EU presidency on July 1.
The United States says the shield is needed to protect against missile attacks from what it calls rogue states such as Iran and North Korea.
It wants to place elements of the shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russia has strongly opposed the project as a threat to its national security.
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