U.S., Russia agree to solve
anti-missile disputes
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Xinhua)-- The
United States has reached an agreement to hold top-level meetings to resolve an
escalating dispute over American plans to build anti-missile system in Eastern
Europe, a senior U.S. official said Friday.
"We have agreed to a Russian suggestion that the
secretaries of defense and state meet with their Russian counterparts
and do so in a so-called 2+2" format, Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried
told reporters.
Full story
U.S. hopes Russia to join missile
defense system
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Xinhua) --
President George W. Bush on Monday defended that U.S. missile defense system is
to prevent attacks from the "rogue regimes" and reiterated his country's call
for Russia to take part in the plan.
"Our intention of course is to have a defense system
that prevents rogue regimes from holding western Europe and/or America hostage,"
Bush said as he welcomed European Union leaders to the White House for the
annual US-EU summit. Full story
Putin slams U.S. plans for
anti-missile system
MOSCOW, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Russian
President Vladimir Putin on Friday lashed out at U.S. plans to deploy
anti-ballistic missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.
"We see absolutely no arguments in favor of the
deployment of missile defense systems in Europe; there are no such reasons,"
Putin was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying after discussing such
issues with his visiting Czech counterpart in Moscow. Full story
U.S., Czech presidents discuss U.S.
missile shield plan
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S.
President George W. Bush and his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus discussed the
U.S. plan to install radar scanners in the Czech Republic, said the U.S.
government on Wednesday.
The two presidents held a telephone conversation, in
which they "discussed missile defense as well as a number of bilateral and
regional issues," said the White House's National Security Council spokesman
Gordon Johndroe in a statement. Full story
Print
