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APWARSAW, Poland - Washington needs to provide more security for Poland if it wants Warsaw to host a U.S. missile defense base, the Polish defense minister said in remarks published Saturday.
Bogdan Klich, who will go to the United States Tuesday for talks on the program with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said a base would expose Poland to new threats, chiefly from terrorists, and it would be "very difficult" to persuade Poles to support the program without more security measures.
"We believe that the injection of Americans funds into modernization of our armed forces would balance the risk to our security linked to the construction of the base," Klich was quoted as saying by the Dziennik newspaper.
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"The Americans must be involved in the modernization of our armed forces, if we are to be a serious ally," Klich said.
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