NATO foreign ministers are converging on the headquarters of the Western military alliance in Brussels to discuss how to respond to the crisis in Georgia and future relations with Moscow.
Following those talks, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to travel on to Warsaw where she is to sign a key missile defence shield pact with Poland. The deal provides for the installation of US interceptor missiles on Polish territory. The plan is a major bone of contention between the US and Russia. Washington says the shield is designed to fend off potential missile attacks by what it describes as rogue states. Moscow sees it as a security threat designed to undermine its own nuclear deterrent.
(Deutsche Welle)
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