US Vice-President Joe Biden says Romania has joined Poland in embracing the new US missile defence system that replaces plans for a European missile shield. Slovakia, however, has ruled out taking part.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (right) said on Wednesday during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden (left) that Poland would take part in a new US anti-missile system that replaces plans for a European missile shield opposed by Russia.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Moscow holding the first high level talks between the US and Russia since President Obama announced that Washington was abandoning its plans for a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
A day after Washington announced it was abandoning plans for a missile shield in Europe, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the US, NATO and Russia should consider integrating their missile defence plans.
What's to make of the decision by US President Barack Obama on Thursday to abandon plans for a missile defense shield based in the Czech Republic and Poland?
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has praised the Obama administration for ditching plans for missile defence bases in Europe, a strategy originally backed by former President George W. Bush.
US President Barack Obama has announced a new approach to missile defence in Europe, shelving the controversial plans for a missile shield backed by his predecessor George W. Bush.
The US is to abandon plans proposed by the Bush administration for a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer told reporters on Thursday. The decision will please Russia, who opposed the plan.
President Dmitry Medvedev has renewed a threat to deploy missiles in an enclave near Poland if Washington advances its missile shield plans in Europe. It was a return to tough rhetoric after a positive tone during Obama's visit to Moscow this week.
