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Business/Financial

Obama, Medvedev Still At Odds Over European Missile Defense

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Monday, April 6th, 2009

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President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev remain divided over a U.S. plan to construct a European Missile Defense system to protect Europe and the United States against missile attack by Middle Eastern nations such as Iran. They discussed "new possibilities" for cooperating on missile defense, without reaching any agreement. The most that the two leaders did was to agree to further discussions of possible Russian cooperation or participation in the EMD system, if it is built. Obama and Medvedev…

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