Europe Splits Russian, US Presidents at Final Meeting
Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush's final meeting was a commemoration of their personal ties but couldn't paper over entrenched differences on US missile defense plans for central Europe and the role of NATO. President Vladimir Putin said Sunday, April 6, that Russia was not prepared to drop its objections to US plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe despite recent US concessions, news agency Interfax reported. "Our fundamental attitudes to the American plan have not changed," Putin said in a press conference after his last tete-a-tete meeting with his US counterpart George W. Bush. Putin, however, acknowledged US efforts to "resolve the issues" and "offer a set of confidence-building measures."
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