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Article: NATO DEFENCE MINISTERS' MEETING : NATO AGREES THREE-TRACK APPROACH TO MISSILE DEFENCE.
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- June 25, 2007
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The three-track approach to missile defence agreed by NATO on 14 June will be to continue an ongoing NATO project to develop theatre missile defence to protect troops deployed on missions from missile threats, to assess the full military and political implications of the US missile defence shield for NATO and to continue existing cooperation with Russia on theatre missile defence as well as consultation on related issues.
US and NATO officials say that the planned Czech [radar] and Polish [interceptor missiles] bases would protect most of Europe from the threat of long-range attack from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East but would leave Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria ...