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http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Pol&pg=0&id=5622597&req= [To become 'NATO interoperable....'] Interfax March 4, 2003 Poland will likely sign deal to buy F-16 combat jets with Lockheed Martin by end-April -Poland picked Lockheed Martin's offer of 48 F-16 jets at the end of December over Anglo-Swedish BAE Systems/Saab's offer of Gripen plans and Dassault's offer of Mirages. The Americans put forward an offset worth USD 9.8 bln.... Warsaw. (Interfax-Europe) - Poland is likely to sign the main deal to buy 48 F-16 combat jets at end- April instead of at end-February, as earlier planned, due to problems negotiating the compensatory offset deal offered by Lockheed Martin, the supplier of the jets, Polish Deputy Defense Minster Janusz Zemke told reporters Tuesday (February 25). "We have the main agreement about the purchase of the F-16s and ammunition ready to sign. But work on the offset agreement is still going on and we think that from Poland's point of view it is better to sign all agreements on the same day. We have until the end of April for that," Zemke said. The minister added that the government would have only 60 days to negotiate the offset deal -- which is designed to compensate Poland for the USD 3.5 bln price tag by channeling investment into the economy -- if it signs the main agreement. The offset deal is required for the main agreement to be valid, according to Polish law. Poland picked Lockheed Martin's offer of 48 F-16 jets at the end of December over Anglo-Swedish BAE Systems/Saab's offer of Gripen plans and Dassault's offer of Mirages. The Americans put forward an offset worth USD 9.8 bln, though the Polish commission overseeing negotiation of the offset program have revised this amount to USD 6.2 bln. Zemke said in December that if the agreement with the winner of the tender fails to be signed, talks would be started with the runner-up, namely, BAE/Saab. Zemke said the Anglo-Swedish group prolonged the validity of its offer to the end of June. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
