US Keeps Pressure on Nicaragua to Destroy Missiles

[Judi Lynn]

US Keeps Pressure on Nicaragua to Destroy Missiles
Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:33 AM ET


MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - The United States kept up its pressure on Nicaragua on Thursday to destroy a mass of Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles that Washington fears could be sold to terrorists on the black market.
The Nicaraguan government has destroyed some 1,000 of the missiles, left in army stockpiles from the country's civil war in the 1980s, but said on Wednesday it might struggle to win approval from Congress to destroy any more.

Rose Likins, of the State Department, one of a group of U.S. officials who visited Nicaragua this week to urge the destruction of the 1,000 or so missiles still in government stockpiles, said President Enrique Bolanos had reaffirmed to her his promise to get rid of them.

"As a responsible member of the international community, Nicaragua should continue to consider the safety of commercial aviation and the implications these missiles have for the country's security and economic opportunities," Likins said.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7735913



23 de febrero de 2005, 22h10
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Rose Likins shakes hands with Enrique Bolanos, President of Nicaragua, in the Presidential House in Managua, Nicaragua, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005. U.S. officials arrived to convince Nicaragua to destroy about 1,000 Soviet-era portable missiles as a court imposed light sentences on men accused of trading in such a weapon. (AP Photo/Jorge Ortega, Presidential House)

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hmmm Monroe Doctrine rears its ugly head???

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Ummmm- ya think the guy missed the news on Iraq?

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If Bolanos has one active brain cell, after wittnessing what happened to Iraq after IT disarmed - -

Aw feckadee

Don't need no long theories here . .

Bolanos ain't gonna get rid of squat

He'll get some fakes made and destroy them

And maybe give/sell a few to his friends to keep the USA offa their ass!

OH - if'n the US is so concerned about these weapons

They must be good ones :bounce: