Poland rejects U.S. missile shield offer

By Patryk Wasilewski and Gareth Jones, WARSAW (Reuters) 4/07/2008 15:07 Poland rejects U.S. missile shield offer Have your say on What are you talking about? in our Forums Poland rejected as insufficient on Friday a U.S. offer to boost its air defences in return for basing a "missile shield" on its territory but said it remained open to further talks with Washington. The decision by Poland, a staunchly pro-American NATO ally, is a setback for the Bush administration's plans for global missile defence, which is intended to counter possible threats from what Washington calls "rogue states", particularly Iran. "We have not reached a satisfactory result on the issue of increasing the level of Polish security," Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a news conference after studying the final U.S. proposal. "The aim of the negotiations,... [read full story]