Dans l'affaire des anti-missiles, les Russes profitent aisément des lourdeurs US

Les Russes profitent évidemment des faiblesses et des lourdeurs du Pentagone et de Washington dans l’affaire des anti-missiles. Il y sont aidés, tout aussi évidemment, par l’agacement montant chez les Européens.

Les deux notes ci-dessous, de nos sources internes, illustrent cette évolution. D’une part, les Russes (en la personne du ministre des affaires étrangères Lavrov), soudain très faciles, très ouverts, très arrangeants, essentiellement parce qu’ils s’adressent aux Européens. Ils savent que les Américains s’embourbent de plus en plus dans leurs contradictions internes, dont celle de l’intervention du Congrès n’est pas la moindre. Pour eux, la tactique est évidente : on parle amicalement aux Européens sans pour autant brusquer nécessairement les Américains (ces derniers se suffisant à eux-mêmes à cet égard).

«Moscow will not allow a dispute over U.S. plans to build a missile shield in central Europe to harm its relations with the European Union, Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Sergei Lavrov adopted an unusually conciliatory tone in a speech broadcast by video link from Moscow during a conference at the German foreign ministry. “We will not allow us to be put at odds with the Europeans and we'll continue to develop our relations with them,” Lavrov said. Clearly referring to the U.S. view of the threat posed by Iranian missiles, he said: “We will not succumb to hysteria.” Nor does Moscow want to fight with the Americans, he added. “We strongly reject confrontation with the United States and we'll continue our dialogue and expand cooperation where our interests coincide, while frankly explaining the inadmissibility of unilateral destabilising actions,” Lavrov said.»

L’agacement des Européens se marque par une intervention particulièrement critique du Premier ministre de la Slovaquie, pays voisin-frère de la Tchéquie. Robert Fico n’a jamais été partisan de l’initiative US mais on voit bien qu’il n’hésite plus à expliciter son sentiment par une critique élaborée des USA.

«The United States made a “grave mistake” by not consulting widely enough on its plan to deploy a missile shield in central Europe, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was quoted on Wednesday as saying. “This decision will create much nervousness,” Fico said in an interview with Austrian newspaper Die Presse when asked why he had called the missile shield a danger. “We need stability, not nervousness. It was a grave mistake that the United States didn't discuss this issue properly, neither with the European Union nor in NATO, nor with Russia,” Fico added, according to the interview. Washington has angered Russia and unsettled some European allies with a plan to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic from 2012. “The missile shield so far is a bilateral issue between the United States and Poland, and the Czech Republic. That's why I don't approve,” Fico said. Slovakia shares borders with both Poland and the Czech Republic. The published comments were Fico's strongest remarks on the missile shield, as he had until now only said he would not let Slovakia be a part of the U.S.»

Mis en ligne le 10 mai 2007 à 19H51