Sat, Nov 21 2009
US vice president Joe Biden.

In Bucharest, US vice president Joe Biden meets Romanian president Traian Basescu and prime minister Boc, thanking them for Romania’s support for the revamped missile shield plan and for Romanian military personnel in Afghanistan.
The purpose of the conference is to create a regional high-level forum to examine critical issues in today’s security environment.
In Warsaw, US vice president Joe Biden is told by prime minister Donald Tusk that Poland supports the Obama administration’s revised missile plan, after a Bush-era ‘missile shield’ scheme was dropped.
Meetings in Warsaw, Bucharest, Prague on the agenda, with the Obama administration’s new missile shield plan a key item on the agenda for talks with heads of state and government.
Turkey's plans to buy missile systems from the US should not be interpreted as a willingness to host missile defence shield components on its territory, Turkish daily Today's Zaman said
Controversial plan for the missile defence system was proposed by the Bush administration but opposed by Russia from the start
Welcomed by the UK government, France and Germany, as well as the US, the naming of Belgium’s Herman van Rompuy as European Council President and Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief has caused misgivings in some circles, including Turkey which believes that Van Rompuy will oppose Turkish membership of the bloc.
The dinner meeting of EU leaders to decide on the European Council President and the bloc’s new foreign minister and head of secretariat could take a few hours or all night, says host Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden’s prime minister.
Russia and the European Union have agreed on an early warning system if another natural gas cutoff looms. Some say that Bulgaria, among other countries hard-hit by the January 2009 crisis, is now better prepared. Not everyone is convinced.
Five Bulgarian films screened at the World Film Festival in Bangkok.
A complicated game, played partly in the dark, and with elements of everything from poker to tug ‘o war – that’s the way Europe’s leaders will come up with its new European Council President, foreign minister and European Commission.
"In an interview with a Polish newspaper ahead of the visit, Biden sought to assure Warsaw that Washington’s attempts to ‘reset’ its relations with Moscow would not jeopardise the security of Eastern Europe, Deutsche Welle reported."
How in the hell are you going to do that? "Reset" your relationship with a country that Biden insulted a few months a go and then put missiles in a neighboring country aimed at them, and after all is done, offerer them a hand shake...
Poland is notoriously anti-Russian - a sentiment that goes back before the US existed.
You can't antagonize the Russians enough if you listen to them.
I hope the Russians sabotage the US instead of helping them, the same way the US is doing everything it can to destabilize Russia by surrounding it with bases and missiles...