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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Russia unveils Azeri radar ahead of U.S. talks

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usRussia is primed to upgrade its anti-missile radar in Azerbaijan as part of a joint security measure with the United States proposed by President Vladimir Putin, an army official said on Saturday.

Russia unveiled its top-secret radar system to foreign reporters a day before Putin meets U.S President George W. Bush for talks that are expected to focus on Moscow's surprise offer to share the missile defence system in the ex-Soviet country.

"In the event of the relevant military and political decision being taken, the station can be modernised any time," said Major-General Alexander Yakushin, first deputy head of Russia's spaces forces headquarters.

"Its personnel is sure to cope with any task," he told the first foreign reporters to visit the 22-year-old station, where huge Soviet-era computers process data from the radar.

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