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'No quid pro quo' with Russia

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President Obama has dismissed as inaccurate a report that he offered to suspend plans for a US missile defence shield, for Russian co-operation in blocking Iranian missile plans.

The president said the missile defence programme had always been designed to deal with "an Iranian threat", rather than a Russian threat.

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