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The leaders ' missile-shield agreement was touted as an important victory by officials from the Obama administration, which suffered a setback at its last major effort at summit diplomacy this month at the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul.
NATO Agrees to Extend Missile Shield Stephen Fidler 2010
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message - The Daily Beast 2009
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I hope folks didn't think those were merely empty threats about the so-called 'missile-shield' in poland.
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A senior White House official confirmed Tuesday that Mr. Obama sent his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, a letter about three weeks ago offering to pull back U.S. missile-shield plans in Europe in exchange for Moscow's cooperation in isolating Iran.
U.S. Willing to Roll Back Missile-Defense Plans in Europe 2009
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You GO, Ziggy -- “The Bush missile-shield proposal was based on a nonexistent defense technology, designed against a nonexistent threat, and designed to protect West Europeans, who weren't asking for the protection.”
OpEdNews - Quicklink: How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message - The Daily Beast 2009
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The White House hopes to work out a framework at that meeting for resolving a number of issues between the two countries, particularly a U. S.-designed missile-shield system to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said the Sochi meeting might not produce an immediate agreement on the missile-shield issue.
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President Bush is expected to see departing Russian President Vladimir Putin during a summit next month, where the missile-shield plan is expected to be discussed.
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As oil prices soared, so did Russian assertiveness on the world scene — and anger over perceived offenses such as the possibility of further NATO expansion and the missile-shield deal with Poland and the Czech Republic.
Projections of Power 2008
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Poland, for example, has sought special security commitments from the U.S. in exchange for its participation in a missile-shield system that Washington wants, but that Russia is resisting.
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