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A high-ranking U.S. diplomat said Friday the United States was holding informal talks with Bulgaria on hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield on its soil. Two weeks ago, Romania announced that it would host interceptor missiles as part of a U.S. missile defense system.

"Next week, members of the State Duma International Affairs Committee will travel to Washington for the fifth joint session with Congressmen, members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee," committee head Konstantin Kosachyov said in an interview with the Rossia24 TV channel.

He said the topic of the discussion - the deployment of missile defense elements in Europe - had come up rather unexpectedly for Russia.

"This refers not only to Romania but probably also to Bulgaria and some other countries in the south of Europe," he said, adding that the U.S. plans were out of sync with the logic of Russian-U.S. relations.

"The most deplorable part is that these plans do not fit into the

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