Poland Considers Housing U.S. Missile Defenses

Polish and U.S. officials have discussed placing a U.S. missile defense installation in Poland, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday (see GSN, July 13, 2004).

“Secret negotiations took place last year over the stationing of one of three antimissile bases in Poland,” the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported Saturday.

Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz confirmed that Poland was considering such a move.

“We will analyze everything thoroughly and at the appropriate moment say whether it is good or not for Poland,” he told TVN television.

“We back the participation of Poland in what has been called the third stage of the antimissile system, related to the radar identification and destruction of enemy missiles,” says a government statement (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, Nov. 12)

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