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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Poland speeds up missile defense plan amid Ukraine crisis

MEADSPoland has decided to speed up its tender for a missile defense system, the Defence Ministry said, in a sign of Warsaw's disquiet over the tension between neighboring Ukraine and Russia.

"By the end of this year we want to already have chosen an offer. That is the acceleration by several months, compared to our original plans, that we are talking about," Czeslaw Mroczek, Deputy Defence Minister, told Reuters.

The NATO member had planned to determine the supplier of its missile defence system in 2015, but the crisis in Ukraine and concerns about Russia's annexation of Crimea have prompted officials to speed up the timetable.

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