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Russian and U.S. foreign and defense ministers will meet in October to discuss missile defense deployment in Central Europe, a deputy Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and U.S. foreign and defense ministers will meet in October to discuss missile defense deployment in Central Europe, a deputy Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

"The results of an expert working out of our proposals will be considered at this October's meeting of Russian and U.S. foreign and defense ministers," Boris Malakhov said.

The U.S. has said it wants to place a radar and a host of interceptor missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic to fend off what Washington sees as an impending missile threat from Iran and North Korea. However, Russia regards the plan as a threat to its national security.

President Vladimir Putin, during his two-day meeting with President George Bush at the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, last month, proposed incorporating a new radar, currently being built in southern Russia, into a missile defense system managed by the NATO-Russia Joint Permanent Council, of which Moscow and Washington are members.

Russia also said it is ready to upgrade its early warning radar in Gabala, Azerbaijan, which was also proposed as an alternative to U.S. missile plans, but Washington has repeatedly called it obsolete.

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