Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk accepts American revamped missile defence system. Photo by Sebastian Zwez/Wikipedia

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today after meeting with the US Vice President Joe Biden that his country is ready to participate in the revamped plan for a US missile defence shield in Europe, the Washington Post reports.

US President Barack Obama removed a major irritant in relations with Russia last month by scrapping plans to place interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic – deployments Moscow treated as a threat. The Kremlin praised Obama for the decision, but Russian officials also have said they want to know details about what system the US will put in place instead.

Tusk welcomed the US proposal for a missile shield that would replace a bulkier version previously planned for Poland. “I want to stress that Poland views … the new configuration for the missile shield as very interesting, necessary, and we are ready at the appropriate scale to participate,” Tusk said at a news conference with Biden.

Former US President George Walker Bush wanted to put 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic, to intercept long-range missiles launched from rogue states, such as Iran. The Obama administration instead proposed a reconfigured system that envisions putting the US Navy’s Standard Missile-3 on ships and land-based versions in Europe.

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