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Poland to choose best missile defence offer within weeks


    WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland plans to choose the best offer for a planned missile defence system within the next few weeks and sign a final agreement this year, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

    There are four bidders: France's Thales, in a consortium with European group MBDA and a Polish state defence group; the Israeli government; Raytheon of the United States; and the MEADS consortium led by Lockheed Martin.

    The announcement came at a time of heightened East-West tension over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Experts say the bid will be worth up to 40 billion zlotys ($13.12 billion) and is to be completed by the end of 2022.

    (Reporting by Marcin Goettig, editing by David Evans)