Bush to meet Putin for first time
US President George W. Bush wants to persuade Russia to forge a new partnership between the former Cold War foes and abandon a three-decade-old ban on national missile defences.
However, aides to Bush who today meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the first time said they expected no breakthrough agreement on the issue that most sharply divides Washington and Moscow: Bush’s plan to create a system to shield against missile attacks.
