Moscow - Washington stepped up pressure on Moscow yesterday when an envoy implicitly set a November deadline for sketching a deal on sidelining a long-standing treaty that bars the US from building a missile defence shield.
The US Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Mr John Bolton, said he expected a way past the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty could be found by the time Russian President Putin visits Mr Bush at the US president's Texas ranch in November.