Inside Europe | 23.08.2008 | 15:05
Warsaw and Washington sign the US missile defence shield agreement
The deal has many critics in Poland, who point out that it could seriously upset the country’s relations with Russia, which has long objected to the missile shield.
On Wednesday Condoleeza Rice and the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, signed the deal to deploy part of a US missile shield on Polish territory. The Polish government was initially reluctant to accept the system, but it changed its mind after it received additional US security guarantees including the boosting of its air defences.
Reporter: Rafal Kiepuszewski
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