Russia 'Confident' Obama Will Study Missile Shield Plan - Lavrov

From RIA Novosti:

MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow is "confident" the U.S. president-elect will look into the effectiveness of the Bush administration's plans for a Central European missile shield.

Lavrov said in an interview aired on the Moscow-based Ekho Moskvy radio station on Saturday that Barack Obama would "analyze the situation concerning the deployment" of elements of a U.S. missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland "from the point of view of their cost and effectiveness."

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