Meanwhile, European Commission President Jose Barroso urged the U.S and Russia to move beyond the growing dispute over U.S. plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

European Commission President Jose Barroso: “For me the most important challenge is not this Cold War rhetoric that I really find quite puzzling and completely out of tune with reality. The real problems of the world are not those coming from this Cold War rhetoric that is completely inappropriate. The real problems of the world are people dying every day because they don’t have enough food to eat or clean water to drink, the fact that we are having this climate change threat to our planet.”