Poland sticks to security demands in US missile shield talks

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

WARSAW (AFP) — Poland refused to budge Friday from its demands for extra air defence-type security guarantees from the United States in exchange for agreeing to host elements of a US missile shield.

"The installation of the missile shield would create new dangers and if the shield cannot counter all these dangers, we need other technological elements, like for example Patriot missiles, on Polish soil," Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters.

"We don't expect extraordinary funding, we're not talking about great sums of money, but we need clear solutions, to know there is a permanent arms presence guaranteeing Poland's security," the prime minister said.

Warsaw has been lobbying Washington to provide it with a THAAD or Patriot-type air defence system in...