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Canada: collaboration for the USA's defensive shield programme for "political" purposes

Ottawa, Canada - It would have been pointed out by Canadian Defence Minister, so underlining that reasons would not deal with defence exigencies

Whereas the United States carry on the activities for ensuring the full readiness of at least some missiles destined to the new defensive shield (see for details AVIONEWS), scheduling to achieve the availability of some 20 interceptors in 2005 (though some of them would have already been located at the Alaska and California centres), it seems that the relations with Canada on such programme are currently...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 104310
Rome, Italy, 09/30/2004 13:39
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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