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Halfway There: Czech Republic Signs Documents Providing European Missile Defense Radar Site

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

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Czech Parliament Still Has Not Ratified Deal Poland Moving To Bolster Talks On Granting Permission For Missile Interceptors Site Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed documents needed for the Czech Republic to provide a radar site for the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system. The U.S. defensive system, a variant of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system in Alaska and California, also envisions silos in the ground filled with 10 interceptors that would be…

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