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09:08, December 05, 2007 |
New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that there will be no breakthrough soon in his country's talks with the United States on a planned deployment of missile defense components.
"There will be no radical moves and no breakthrough, nothing surprising," he told reporters at NATO headquarters after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
"There is no rigid doctrine about the missile defense negotiations. What we need to do above all is to strengthen Polish security ... in full cooperation with NATO and the EU (European Union)," he added.
He said his country is interested in closest cooperation with NATO on missile defense and wants NATO to be the guarantor of security for all member states.
De Hoop Scheffer said NATO is not participating in the bilateral negotiations between Washington and Warsaw.
The United States plans to deploy strategic missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Washington claims that this is designed against potential missile threats from Iran. But Russia fears that the deployment at its backyard is aimed at reducing Moscow's missile deterrence.
Source: Xinhua
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