Romania and Moldova began bilateral talks...

Romanian President Traian Basescu said last week his country could host U.S. medium-range interceptor missiles as part of revamped shield after U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped Bush administration plans for a radar and interceptor missiles in the Czech Republic and Poland last year.

"Every sovereign state has a right to decide for itself on the mechanisms of national security according to its national interests," Valery Turya said before the Kishinev talks.

Moldova has been keeping a cautious eye on the situation after the leader of the unrecognized republic of Transdnestr, Igor Smirnov, said on Monday his republic would deploy Russian Iskander missiles to counter U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Romania if Moscow asked.

The Russian-speaking province of Transdnestr has maintained de facto independence from Moldova since a brief war in 1992, which was the culmination of tensions following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Russia has had peacekeepers

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