Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today after meeting with the US Vice President Joe Biden that his country is ready to participate in the revamped plan for a US missile defence shield in Europe, the Washington Post reports.
US President Barack Obama removed a major irritant in relations with Russia last month by scrapping plans to place interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic – deployments Moscow treated as a threat. …

Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern today at US President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defence shield planned for their countries, the AP reports.
“Betrayal! The US sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama’s new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous “gray zone” between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has praised US President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Europe, calling it “right and brave”, and he urged the US to cancel restrictions on trade with Russia, the AP reports.
Putin hailed Obama’s move as “right and brave” and said that it has raised hope the US administration also will move to cancel all existing restrictions on trade with Russia.
Putin also said that Moscow …

US President Barack Obama officially confirmed that the United States is dropping plans for the missile defence shield in Europe and replacing it with a “new missile defence architecture”, CNN reports.
The new system “will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems and offer greater defences against the threat of missile attack than the 2007 European missile defence program” proposed by former President George W. Bush, Obama claimed.
He did not go into details about the new …

US President Barack Obama has decided to scrap plans for a US missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland that had deeply angered Russia, the Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer confirmed today.
Fischer said that Obama phoned him overnight to say that “his government is pulling out of plans to build a missile defense radar on Czech territory”, AP reports. “The same happened with Poland. Poland was informed in the same way about this intention,” …

According to a Polish daily, the United States will abandon plans to house an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Washington TV reports.
The multi-billion dollar project, intended for defence against attacks from Iran and other rogue states, was to install 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic. It had met with fierce objections from Russia.
The Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, said that Washington was now considering deploying anti-missile …