Russia could inspect Polish missile site : U.S

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Source: Reuters

Russia could inspect Polish missile site : U.S

By Adam Jasser
1 hour, 49 minutes ago

WARSAW (Reuters) - The United States is ready to allow Russian experts
to inspect a missile defense site likely to be placed in Poland to convince
Moscow it poses no threat to its interests, a senior U.S. official said.

"We would be prepared to show the site to the Russians so that they could
check for themselves that it has no offensive character," Lieutenant-General
Henry Obering, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said late on
Tuesday.

"One caveat is that the Polish government would have to consent to that,"
he told Reuters during a trip to Warsaw.

Poland is Obering's latest stop in a tour aimed at convincing the European
public, much of which is skeptical, of the merits of the system.

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Source: Reuters

US aims to ease anti-missile fears at Russia talks
18 Apr 2007 11:10:44 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Mark John

BRUSSELS, April 18 (Reuters) - The United States will seek to deflate
Russian anger and dispel European scepticism about its anti-missile shield
system at NATO-hosted talks on Thursday which it hopes will ease a
months-long controversy.

The meeting of top officials from NATO and Russia in Brussels is part of a
U.S. campaign to rein in a row some have compared to a mini-Cold War,
and which has exposed divergences among NATO allies about dealing with
security threats.

"We have been hopelessly behind the curve in explaining this. That has
allowed others to hijack the issue," conceded a senior U.S. official.

President Vladimir Putin, who some analysts say is using the spat to divide
the West, has said Washington's plan to deploy 10 interceptor rockets in
Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic by 2012 is an encroachment on
its former sphere of influence.

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