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Japan against joining U.S. global missile shield - Baluyevsky

14:13 11/04/2008

Japan will not join the U.S. global missile defense network in the near future despite close cooperation with the U.S. on boosting its own missile defenses, Russia's chief of the General Staff said Friday.

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