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US offers details on Polish missile shield plan Foreign Ministry (Roundup)

Oct 6, 2009, 16:56 GMT

Warsaw - Poland would likely serve as the site for a stationary SM-3-type missile system, possibly based in Redzikowo, under a new proposal presented by the United States, the Polish Press Agency PAP said Tuesday. The announcement came after a report that a high-level US official, likely Vice President Joe Biden or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will visit Warsaw and Prague in the coming days to mend ailing relations after Washington's abandonment of an earlier missile shield system. The proposal confirms plans that were earlier laid out by the US, PAP said, citing sources at the ministry, that the system could be partly based in Redzikowo, in northern Poland. Redzikowo was to host part of the previously planned missile shield, which was to include a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptors in Poland. The new missile shield would be mobile and would contain both surface and ground systems, as well as a stationary system in Poland based on SM-3 interceptor missiles, Slawomir Nowak, the head of the prime minister's chancellery, told PAP. Russia said that the earlier system could have been used to target its own nuclear arsenal. The US had assured the military base was for protection against 'rogue states' like Iran.

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