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US, Russian official held talks on maccording to dpa.issile defence cooperation
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 08 - 2007

Senior US and Russian officials have held two
days of talks in Washington on controversial US plans to base a
missile-defence system in Eastern Europe, partly focusing on how the
two sides can cooperate in addressing ballistic missile threats from
rogue nations, the US State Department said Wednesday,
"They had a good preliminary exchange on the issues, looking at
the perspectives of both sides on the threat to proliferation from
ballistic missiles and" weapons of mass destruction, State Department
deputy spokesman Tom Casey said.
US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin
agreed to arrange the discussions during a summit in Kennebunkport,
Maine, in July to try to overcome stark differences on the plans for
10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech
Republic.
The dispute between the two countries has sparked some of the
harshest rhetoric since the Cold War and concerns of rekindling an
arms race. Russia believes the defence shield is a threat to its own
national security, while the United States insists it is designed to
counter Iran's growing ballistic missile capability.
Putin has proposed using a Russian site in Azerbaijan instead of
deploying to Eastern Europe. Bush considers the proposal interesting
but says it cannot be a substitute for the locations in Poland and
the Czech Republic. The Russian officials provided more information
on the Azerbaijan proposal, Casey said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak led his country's
delegation, which met with with US assistant secretaries of state
Daniel Fried and John Rood, and US Defence Undersecretary Eric
Edelman for the "expert level" talks.
"It was a chance for both delegations, really though, to give
their perspectives on the threat as we saw it from the United States
to Europe and to Russia," Casey said.
The two sides have planned further meetings to address the issue.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert
Gates plan to hold a combined meeting with their Russian counterparts
this fall.


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