RIGA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Latvian President Valdis Zatlers said Thursday that Russia's deployment of missiles in an enclave in eastern Europe would not pose a direct threat to his country.

    Zatlers said he didn't think the arrangement would be a military threat to Lativa now or in the near future.

    However, he said the deployment would reduce the trust of Russia's neighboring countries, preventing them from developing relations of mutual understanding, and harming Europe's security.

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, in response to U.S. plans to set up a missile shield in eastern Europe.

    The Iskander missile has a range of about 280 km and is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.