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Article: U.S. aims for construction to begin on new embassy in Berlin in 2003
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- January 29, 2002
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Dateline: BERLIN
The U.S. ambassador to Germany intends to file a memo of understanding
soon with the Berlin city government so that the construction of a
new embassy can begin by 2003, an embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
The memo would detail the final U.S. plans, incorporating revisions
agreed upon after lengthy talks with German authorities over security
measures, spokesman Mark Smith said. He would not provide further
details.
City officials balked at the U.S. proposals calling for rerouting
traffic and pedestrians flows in an area near the heavily visited
Brandenburg Gate. The United States sought the security measures after
the bombing of two U.S. embassies in ...