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Nicaraguan parliament approves
destruction of more missiles
Nicaragua's National Assembly on
Thursday agreed to destroy 651
surface-to-air missiles that the
United States wants scrapped for
fears that they may end in
terrorist hands.
After a stormy session,
legislators in favor of the
missiles' destruction
established a quorum to vote for
the destruction of the batch of
shoulder-fired SAM-7 missiles
bought in the 1980s.
Nicaragua dismantled 1,000 of
its missiles in 2005. Washington
has sought to convince it to
destroy its estimated 1,000
remaining SAM-7s, but Nicaragua
insists on keeping 400 of the
missiles for its own national
defense force.
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