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Access to shield sites

Russia is demanding that the United States give the Russian military permanent access to its planned missile shield sites in eastern Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying yesterday.

"For us it is important that we should see second-by-second where that radar is looking, and what is happening at the interceptor (missile) base in the Czech Republic," Ekho Moskvy radio station quoted Lavrov as saying.