CHINA-MISSILE 2

"After Agni III and Agni V, as far as cities in China
and Pakistan are concerned, there will be no target that we
want to hit but can't hit," Defence Research and Development
Organisation Chief V K Saraswat had said.

Earlier this week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Ma Zhaoxu had described China's ties with India as "friendly
and cooperative" and said both countries did not pose mutual
threat.
"I don't want to interpret or comment on the reports,"
Ma said when asked to comment on the February seven launch of
Agni-III which put China's major cities within its strike
range.
"The China-India relation is friendly and cooperative.
China will not be a threat to India, and nor will India pose a
threat to China," Ma said.
India is set to test within a year an Agni-V nuclear-
capable missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometres,
Saraswat, had said.
"We feel our accuracy is better than China's DF 21,"
Saraswat had said of the Agni-III, which was test launched on
February 7.
The DF-21 is China's mid-range missile that debuted in
1999, along with its intercontinental ballistic missile, the
DF- 31, which the army utilises.
Zhang also dismissed Saraswat's assertion that India
was ahead of China in the area of ballistic missile defence
(BMD). (MORE) PTI AKJ
RBT


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