Pentagon Denies Missile Sales Talks With India
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 1:13 pm
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has had longstanding contacts with India on missile defense issues but is not in talks to sell it missile defense systems, a defense spokesman said.
“The United States and India currently are not discussing the sale of any US missile defense
systems to India,” said Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Upton.
A newspaper, citing US embassy officials in New Delhi, said the United States was in
preliminary talks about sales of US missile shield systems to guard New Delhi against nuclear threats.
A US defense official described the interaction with the Indians as being on “a very rudimentary level.”
“We have invited them to observe two tests this year to facilitate discussions of the two
countries’ ballistic missile defense test programs,” the official said.
But the official said the invitation was extended with the understanding that it did not
signal “US intention or willingness to sell the systems involved.”
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