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The article reports that the U.S. will not cover the hundred of millions of dollars shortfall of Warsaw, Poland in exchange for their agreement to allow the U.S. to deploy missile interceptors in Poland. The Americans do not plan to follow the footsteps of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in giving Poland equipment for factories, farm machinery and state-of-the-art weaponry. The Polish leaders are encouraged to take a realistic approach to handle the modernization of its military.

The article reports on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's issue of a tough American warning to official Warsaw. Czech politicians have been making thorough preparations for Rice's visit to Prague on April 3, 2008. The Czech government has prepared an international conference on "Missile Defense After the NATO Bucharest Summit."

The article talks about the visit of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq which demonstrated that the United States is not in total control of the situation in Iraq. It reports that the Iranian president spoke with the Iranian people, implying that they need to work together with Turkey to turn around the current economic state of Iraq. It notes that the Iranian leader's visit to Iraq left analyst in Washington trying to figure out why he finally agreed to visit the country.

The article reports on the draft of a treaty preventing the deployment of offensive weapons in outer space presented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a conference in Geneva. The treaty is said to be another attempt of Moscow together with Beijing to prevent the U.S. from putting America's forward defense line into orbit, with the Pentagon allegedly accounting for approximately 90 percent of global spending on military space programs.

The article reports on the efforts of a Russian-American working group on missile defense in initiating two days of consultations in Washington D.C. on July 30, 2007. Intricately, the Russian experts will try to persuade their American counterparts to disavow what they have said about the U.S.'s plans to deploy elements of its missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Presents news items on international affairs as of September 2002. Improvement in foreign relations between Russia and the United States; Conflict between Russia and the U.S. regarding import of American poultry; Trade sanctions imposed by the U.S. against three Russian defense enterprises.