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Moscow: The United States did not follow through on a promise to provide Russia with its compromise proposals on missile defence in written form on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited officials as saying on Wednesday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said, "Despite the promises that were given, the US has not yet provided us with the new written proposals on missile defence."
The ministry and the US Embassy declined immediate comment.
A Russian diplomat, however, said the delay was probably just a technical matter.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates made the proposals in a meeting with their Russian counterparts in Moscow on Tuesday that brought no breakthrough on the contentious issue of missile defence.
They are aimed at easing Russia's strongly voiced concern about US plans for facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, former Soviet satellites that are now in Nato.
Gates indicated at a news conference that the Russians would get the written proposals late on Tuesday.
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