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The Russia said on Tuesday the United States is ignoring its concerns about U.S. plans to build a missile shield with elements near Russia's borders.While President Barack Obama pleased Moscow last year by scrapping the previous U.S. administration's missile defence plans, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Russia has similar worries about the revised U.S. approach.In a statement, Nesterenko said "it is already clear" that the new blueprint "in essence posits the deployment in Europe of a missile defence architecture without taking into account Russia's justified interests and concerns".U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Poland on Saturday and witnessed the signing of a pact allowing the deployment of U.S. missile interceptors there.Nesterenko said that despite promises of cooperation in gauging threats and considering responses, "it seems the American side ... has begun deploying elements of its missile defence system based on its own decisions and not joint ones".The remarks suggest that missile defence could still sour ties between Moscow and Washington.Obama scrapped a Bush-era plan for a longer-range system with interceptors based in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic as part of his campaign to "reset" ties with Russia, opting instead for smaller sea and land-based interceptors.Both the Bush and Obama administrations have said a system is needed to protect against potential missile threats from nations such as Iran. But Nesterenko said U.S. assurances that its plans were no threat to Russia were insufficient."We are certain that missile threats to Europe that would require the deployment of a missile defence system on Russia's borders do not exist now and are not foreseen in the future," he said.Russia has stressed that it could eventually withdraw from a landmark nuclear arms reduction pact signed in April if the United States develops a missile shield.
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