NATO headquarters has been warming up to the idea of a Europe-wide missile defence system, with the alliance's ambassadors set to shortly debate a study arguing in favour of such a scheme.
The 10,000-page report was commissioned by the alliance's 2002 summit in Prague and the organisation's secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is reportedly trying to move the discussion ahead.
"We need to have an active debate within the alliance on missile defence to ensure that we have a comm...
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