Italian and Russian defense experts completed a two-week series of consultations yesterday on the creation of a European missile defense system (see GSN, April 1).  The meetings, held within the framework of the NATO-Russia council, demonstrated that the Italian military understood the importance of a common European missile defense system, said Col. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (ITAR-Tass/BBC Monitoring, April 11).

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