WASHINGTON, June 11. /TASS/. Washington’s plans to build a new missile defense system called the Golden Dome only delay the prospects of restarting the Russia-US dialogue on strategic issues, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev said in an interview with TASS in his first talk since he started his work in the US capital on March 26.
"It should be specially noted that the plans broadly publicized by the Americans to build the Golden Dome multilayered missile defense at an accelerated pace with its clearly expressed and purely destabilizing space-based component and the declared goals of pre-launch interception of enemy targets delay even further the prospects of the Russia-US dialogue on strategic issues," the diplomat stressed.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asserted earlier that Washington was promptly advancing in developing the Golden Dome missile defense system. The White House acknowledged that the system was designed to "protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack." US President Donald Trump signed an order on the system’s development on January 28.
A joint statement adopted on May 8 after the negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping highlighted that the Golden (Iron) Dome for America program was "deeply destabilizing in nature."
