Rice, Russian Clash Over Kosovo Plan, Missile Shield
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POTSDAM, Germany, May 30 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday tangled fiercely over U.S. proposals to grant Kosovo independence and build a missile defense shield. Lavrov accused the United States of starting a new arms race with its plan to...
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Serbia warned the EU on  Wednesday it would not accept any decision on Kosovo taken  outside the United Nations and its ally Russia told the United  States to stop backing Kosovo independence while talks  continue.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on  Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve  differences over a planned missile shield, but warned that  Moscow could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will  press her hardline case over Iran's nuclear ambitions with  Russia on Saturday after saying the United States has no plans  for an imminent attack on the Islamic republic.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sent a warning to European nations here Tuesday that there was a "danger" in delaying resolving the issue of Kosovo's status.
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Russia opposes a NATO-backed proposal to set Serbia's province of Kosovo on the road to independence but may accept a trade-off on its future in return for other concessions, diplomats and analysts believe.
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President George W. Bush meets his  Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski on Monday to iron out details  of plans for a U.S. missile shield in eastern Europe that could  strain relations with an already jittery Moscow.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- Russia and the United States yesterday appeared to step back from their confrontation over a planned US missile shield, as President Bush said Moscow was not a menace to Europe and the foreign minister of Russia withdrew a threat to pull out of a conventional arms treaty.
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The United States has criticized  demands by Serbian caretaker prime minister Vojislav Kostunica  for a hardline response from major parties if the West grants  independence to Kosovo in a plan due to be disclosed on Friday.
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BERLIN -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday called a Russian general's warning that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted if they host US missile defense bases "extremely unfortunate."
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called a Russian general's warning that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted if they host U.S. missile defense bases "extremely unfortunate.
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Russia on Friday gave its strongest indication yet that it will oppose a proposal by a U.N. envoy to set the breakaway Serb province of Kosovo on a path to independence.
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The United States urged Russia on Friday not to veto a U.N. resolution on the status of Kosovo, saying the Security Council would lose a role in the province's future and hinting the ethnic Albanian majority may then unilaterally declare independence.
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President George W. Bush will host Russia's President Vladimir Putin in July amid friction between the two over U.S. plans to build a missile shield in Europe and U.S. criticism that Moscow is moving backward on democracy.
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Kosovo will get independence from Serbia "one way or another" despite Russia's objections at the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sought anew Monday to bat down U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, proposing that the system be expanded and largely Russian-based.
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NATO led criticism on Monday of  President Vladimir Putin&#39;s latest attack on a planned U.S.  missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead  of a Group of Eight (G8) encounter with Putin this week.