Posted by: zanshin, 2008-10-29 01:40

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Date: 2008-09-09 (Tuesday)
The planned missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic “is made to put pressure on them (the Russians). It has nothing to do with the Iranians”.
-- According to Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, radio interview on France Inter






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