General says Russia did not get any arms reduction proposals from US.

He is attending the 9th international defense exhibition IDEX. ?First, there wasn?t any official statement /on the part of the U.S. ? Itar-Tass/,? Gen Makarov said. ?There were media reports suggesting that, well, somebody passed the information in a hope to get some sort of reaction.? ?We didn?t consider the issue officially,? he said. ?We?ll speak about it after we get proposals but for the time being it?s absolutely early to talk about anything.? Gen Makarov also warned that Russia will offer an appropriate response to the attempts to militarize the Arctic area. "You probably know serious research efforts are underway in the Arctic area and /member of Russian parliament and eminent Arctic explorer/ Artur Chilingarov is monitoring the Arctic problems very closely and we're working in a tight contact with him," he said; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. "Our country will watch the degree of militarization of the region and will act depending on it," Gen Marakov said.