Mihai Carp, deputy chief in the Crisis Management Department on the NATO HQ Operations Division, said during a weekly debate hosted by journalist Dan Tapalaga for BBC and HotNews.ro this weekend that the NATO missile shield was still in the phase of a feasibility study and that the deployment of some of its elements in Romania was out of the question. Romanian Foreign minister Teodor Melescanu told BBC on Friday that Romania would ask an accord at the NATO summit in Bucharest on April 2-4 over the NATO shield, complementary to the US one which would deploy anti-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Commentator Christian Mititelu said during the BBC-HotNews.ro talk show that he believed these missile shields would not be operational anyway unless a country from the Middle East proved it had the capacity to hit the European continent.
Mihai Carp said the issue of the NATO shield was still in a phase of debates and the first consensus in this regard was that a threat was there to take into account.
* Mihai Carp: It is an issue that has yet to reach a conclusion, the fact is it is discussed within the Alliance which would the the Alliance position in this regard, what is important is that we all agree there is a threat, there is also an accord within the Alliance than NATO as an organization and not only the United States should develop measures and a policy to confront these real threats and, as the Secretary General put it, that the security of the allies must be seen as one. So should we develop such a shield or take measures as an Alliance, these measures should be for everybody's good use.
Despite the Romanian Foreign minister underlined that the US shield would not protect the Southern flank of NATO, that is Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, Carp says there was no way elements of the complementary shield would be
