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U.S. plans for a missile shield in Central Europe, but Washington previously said it could be used as a "supplement," if at all.The chief of the U.S. missile defense agency said the radar site in Azerbaijan is too close to Iran to serve as an adequate replacement for the proposed facility in the Czech Republic.
Clinton said on Tuesday that the United States had shown Russia its reassessment of the Iranian missile threat and was expecting cooperation with Moscow on the issue of missile defense.
She said that Russian-U.S. missile defense cooperation would benefit not only the two former Cold War foes, but the whole world.
"We want to ensure that we answer every question asked by the Russian military or government...because we want to be as transparent as possible," she said.
U.S. President Barack Obama in September dropped plans to deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, due to a reassessment of the threat
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