Moscow, July 8 (PTI): Russia today offered a global integrated missile shield for the whole of Europe as an alternative to the US National Missile Defence (NMD), seen as a threat to the country.

Proposing the shield, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, widely seen as likely successor of President Vladimir Putin said Moscow's proposal would include both the United States and European countries, including neutral states like Austria, Finland and Sweden

He said all participating countries in the programme will have equal access to the system's control.

"We are proposing to create a single missile defence system for all participants with equal access to the system's control," Ivanov told the state-run Rossia channel.

He said that the Russian proposal provides pooling efforts to create missile defence data exchange centres in Moscow and Brussels, headquarters of NATO and the European Union.

Ivanov did not rule out that under the project Russia could share some of its "highly sensitive" technologies with the West to generate trust in thwarting rouge missile threat.

He also recalled Putin's proposals to the US for the joint use of Soviet early warning Qabala radar in Azerbaijan, if Washington gave up its plans to deploy elements of its European missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. MORE

In addition, Russia is ready in the future to offer its new radar being built in the south Russian Krasnodar Territory for a joint data system," Ivanov said.

The US plan to deploy elements of its missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic have marred Moscow-Washington relations, putting them on the brink of a new cold war.

In an initial response to the US move, Kremlin threatened to point Russian warheads at Europe and pull out of the cornerstone arms control pact - Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE).

During his 'Lobster Summit' at Bush family's oceanfront retreat at Kennebunkport last weekend Putin offered to modernise Qabala radar leased from Azerbaijan and provide a new generation Russian radar being built near Armavir in Krasnodar Territory in Northern Caucasus for joint use.

Earlier, speaking in Uzbek capital Tashkent last week Sergei Ivanov had cautioned that in case of rejection of the Russian offer by Washington, Moscow could deploy short range nuclear missiles in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad in the heart of Europe.