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WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush is pushing ahead with plans to put missile defense shields in Eastern Europe, despite objections from Russia.
Bush met Monday at the White House with Polish President Lech Kaczynski to discuss stationing 10 interceptor missiles on Polish soil and building a radar station in the Czech Republic, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Despite Russian threats to aim missiles at Poland, Kaczynski vowed to move ahead with the project if the United States promised more help with security, the Post reported.
Kaczynski stressed the shield is intended to deflect attack from rogue states, not Moscow's massive arsenal.
"It is aimed at defense of our democracies against the countries who might have, or already do have, nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction," Kaczynski said.
The White House meeting came just days after Moscow said it will pull out of a major arms control treaty in what was widely seen as a retaliatory move.
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