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Biden in Romania: Bucharest backs new missile shield plan

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Biden in Romania: Bucharest backs new missile shield plan

US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Romania's president Traian Basescu at Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, October 22 2009.


United States vice president Joe Biden, meeting Romanian leaders on October 22 2009, thanked them for the country’s support for Washington’s changed plans for a missile shield in Europe.
 
In September, the Obama administration ditched a Bush-era missile shield plan that Moscow believed was targeted at Russia, with the White House replacing it with plans for a more "flexible" missile targeting system reportedly intended against defence against missiles from Iran.
 
The new system will involve the US navy, with ships as missile platforms and a deployment of the SM – 3 system in Poland, which earlier indicated to Biden its acceptance of the new system.
 
Media reports said that Bucharest had welcomed the new plan.
 
Biden told Romanian president Traian Basecu that the revamped missile shield would benefit both the US and Romania, the Voice of America said.
 
Biden also thanked Romania for the military personnel it had deployed in Afghanistan.

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