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Europe
US denies giving up missile shield plan
2009-08-28
[Iran Press TV Latest] Washington has denied reports that it was abandoning a plan to deploy defense missile shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.

"I would call that report inaccurate," US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. "Our review of our missile defense strategy is ongoing and has not reached completion yet."

Leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, citing officials and lobbyists in Washington, said the United States was scrapping plans to build the bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and was looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey.

Former US president George W. Bush's administration devised the missile defense plan, saying that it was a precautionary measure against attacks from 'rogue states' like Iran and North Korea.

Russia responded furiously to what it saw as an encroachment in the former Soviet bloc and threatened to deploy it own missile system in Kaliningrad and exclave near Poland.
And yet Russia has deployed its own missile defense system facing North Korea. Ironic, no?
Bush's successor, President Barack Obama, who has tried to "reset" relations with Russia, launched a review of the controversial system after taking office earlier this year.
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