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ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - The United States will make a fresh pitch to Russia at a NATO meeting in Oslo on Thursday over its planned missile defence shield in Eastern Europe despite new criticism from Moscow.
NATO nations will also seek at a two-day alliance meeting to convince Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Moscow should back an independence plan for Serbia's Kosovo province.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her NATO counterparts will meet Lavrov three days after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates failed during a trip to Moscow to persuade Russia the shield was not a strategic threat to it.
"There is a lot of suspicion out of the period of the Cold War," Rice told reporters on Wednesday. "It's simply not possible that this could be considered a system that could in any way threaten the Russian strategic deterrent."
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Condascenda is such a liar!