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NTI: Global Security Newswire – Australia Breaks with U.S. on Missile Defense

Australia Breaks with U.S. on Missile Defense NTI May 6, 2009 * The Australian government on Saturday expressed its categorical opposition to national ballistic missile shields, the Sydney Morning Herald reported The position — buried in a 140-page defense white paper — represents a break from the United States and put Australia in the same camp as China and Russia on the question of missile defense………………….Opposition to missile shields is part of the platform of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party.

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Australia Breaks with U.S. on Missile Defense

May 7, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized