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NATO Approves Europe Missile Defense Plan

   Kent Klein | Lisbon 19 November 2010

Photo: AP

   President  Barack  Obama, flanked by French President Nicolas Sarkozy,
   left,  and  German  Chancellor Angela Merkel, are seen during the NATO
   Official  group photo of the North Atlantic Council summit in Lisbon ,
   Portugal.

   Leaders  of  the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have approved U.S.
   President  Barack Obama's proposal for a new, expanded missile defense
   system for Europe. The agreement is a victory for the president, after
   a series of foreign policy setbacks.
   President  Obama says Friday's approval by NATO's main decision-making
   body,  the North Atlantic Council, will make Europe and the world more
   secure. "For the first time, we have agreed to develop missile defense
   capability   that   is  strong  enough  to  cover  all  NATO  European
   populations, as well as the United States," he said.
   NATO  Secretary-General  Anders  Fogh  Rasmussen  says  the  system is