"Vladimir Putin's proposal to share the use of the Gabala radar station was just a "lie detector" for George W. Bush. Naturally, the United States will not agree on that offer, since that station covers nearly the whole world except for the territory of the former USSR," political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan stated to a press conference in Yerevan. In his opinion, the United States needs control over the Russian territory.

At the G8 summit in Heiligendamm Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the U.S. to share the use of the Gabala radar station.