BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed two people near Poland’s embassy in Baghdad on Monday, five days after the Polish ambassador was wounded in an attack, but a diplomat said there were no casualties or major damage at the mission.
Acting ambassador Waldemar Figaj told Reuters that four explosions hit near the embassy on Monday [...]

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Poland’s ambassador to Iraq Edward Pietrzyk remains in an induced coma but his condition has improved slightly after he was wounded in a triple bomb attack in Baghdad on Wednesday, his doctor has said.
    
He said Pietrzyk, who was comatose under sedation and connected to a respirator, would probably require several more weeks of hospitalisation.
   
Pietrzyk suffered [...]

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Poland seeks to establish an air force training base in cooperation with the Czech Republic in Deblin, some 90 km south-east of Warsaw.  The intention was debated in Warsaw by Czech and Polish defence ministry officials.  The Polish defence ministry is now considering that the Czech L-159 aircraft would be used for the training, but [...]

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By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2007 – Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to increase cooperation with the United States as it moves toward establishing a missile defense [...]

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By Carmen L.  Gleason American Forces Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 14, 2007 - Today’s formal meetings of NATO’s North Atlantic Council ended with no formal opposition to U.S.  proposals for a European missile defense plan.

Following a meeting with the NATO-Russia Council, Defense Secretary Robert M.  Gates said there were no criticisms from allies on the [...]

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Prague, June 5 (CTK) - The U.S. plan to build its missile defence base in central Europe, which has been sharply opposed by Moscow, is unimportant in the eyes of most Russians, Russian opposition leader Garri Kasparov said on the margin of the conference on democracy and security in Prague today.
He said that Russian President [...]

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President Vladimir Putin’s warning that Russia would aim missiles at Europe if the United States pursued its plan for a missile defense shield near Russia’s borders is "not helpful," a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, speaking to reporters on President George W. Bush’s plane on his way to a [...]

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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service

WARSAW, Poland, April 24, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here today to meet with President Lech Kaczynski and Minister of National Defense Aleksander Szczyglo and continue talks on European missile defense.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates participates in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Polish Tomb of the [...]

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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2007 – Basing missile defenses in Eastern Europe would protect the United States, deployed U.S. troops and Europe against Iran and other rogue nations, but would pose no threat to Russia’s missile deterrent, the director of the Missile Defense Agency said here today.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry [...]

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News FEBRUARY 21st, 2007
By: Pavla Horakova

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has rejected criticism of the US plans to build a missile shield in Central Europe and described hostile Russian comment as "extremely unfortunate". Dr Rice was reacting to remarks by General Nikolai Solovtsov, commander [...]

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