Impromptu Putin Says Missile Plan a Mistake

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Source: ABC News

Russian President Warns That U.S. Missile Plan Will Risk Relations

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Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to his residence outside Moscow today by making them wait 40 minutes and then delivering a stern lecture before a room full of reporters.

Putin mocked U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe and suggested Russia may pull out of a key arms control treaty.

"Of course we can sometime in the future decide that some anti-missile defense system should be established somewhere on the moon," Putin said. "But before we reach such arrangements, we will lose the opportunity for fixing some particular arrangements between us."

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"We hope," Putin said, "you will not be forcing forward your relations with the East European countries."

It was meant to be 60-second photo-op. Instead Putin spoke for nearly 10 minutes.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. poor condi. treated like the dog that she is.

This is a great comeback after the crap she pulled on the Russian foreign minister the last two trips. silly twit.

[Mudoria]

2. Poor Pooty. Is he upset

the Eastern European countries don't want anything to do with him and his country?