STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The plan should also show that the country will have enough money not only for the purchase of new planes but also for the modernization of other parts of the army." Any idea of what the per capita income of Slovakia is? How many families could be fed, clothed and housed for the price of a US-manufactured war plane? NATO Official Praises Slovak Plan of Building of Armed Forces BRATISLAVA, Jun 1, 2001 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) Allied Air Forces Northern Europe Commander General Gregory Martin praised today in Bratislava a plan of the building of the Slovak armed forces until 2010, being prepared by the Slovak Defense Ministry. He said that it was an excellent project which was proceeding forward very successfully and which offered certain alternatives and possibilities for the orientation of the Slovak armed forces. The plan testifies to Slovakia's great effort to harmonize the development in the defense area with NATO needs, Martin told journalists after talks with chief of the Slovak Army general staff Milan Cerovsky and Defense Ministry State Secretary Rastislav Kacer today. The prepared plan will also concern the Slovak air force. The Slovak National Defense Council did not made a decision in March on a concrete form of the renewal of the Slovak out-dated air force. The council only took note of a Defense Ministry plan for the purchase of multi-purpose subsonic fighter planes and said that the definitive decision would be made in November when the plan of the development of the whole army was approved. The plan should also show that the country will have enough money not only for the purchase of new planes but also for the modernization of other parts of the army. Premier Mikulas Dzurinda said earlier that "it seemed that Slovakia would take the path of using subsonic fighters." A study by Pentagon experts led by General Joseph Garrett, drafted last year, questioned the plan of the purchase of subsonic fighters and recommended that Bratislava postpone purchases of weapons until the year 2010. ((c) 2001 CTK - Czech News Agency) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
