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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
PRAGUE: Nato secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday the alliance supports the installation of an American radar base in the Czech Republic as well as a missile shield for its allies. “We need to be pro-active as Nato on why we need a missile defence and this is why I’m in Prague today,” Scheffer said at a missile defence conference. The Czech government is preparing to sign an accord for the installation on its territory of a powerful antimissile radar set to be linked to another in Poland, to complete a missile shield system created by the Pentagon. “The development of a so-called third site in Europe will be an important contribution to the protection of the allies, but it will not protect all of them,” said Scheffer.
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