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Poland Urges Continuity On Missile Defense, Renewed Military Commitment To NATO

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Thursday, November 20th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic A top Polish official yesterday urged the incoming Obama administration to continue plans for installing ballistic missile defense interceptors in his country. "Naturally, we would like to see this project continue," Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, told the Atlantic Council in Washington. The Bush administration has signed deals with Poland and the Czech Republic to install interceptor missiles and a radar system on their respective territories as the third leg of the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense…

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