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Moscow Wants Talks On NATO-Russia Missile Shield
June 03, 2007
Sergei Lavrov (file photo) (AFP)
renewed talks with the United States on a joint missile-defense system
within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council.
Lavrov said Moscow is ready to "analyze things together" in an "honest" manner.
Tensions have been running high over a U.S. plan to place elements of a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Russia has voiced its opposition to the plan, and has
tested a new missile designed to penetrate such a shield.
(AFP, Interfax)