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美提供尼加拉瓜衛生援助 換取摧毀飛彈
法新社╱鄭詩韻 2008-07-29 15:05
(法新社尼加拉瓜馬納瓜二十八日電)美國駐尼加拉瓜大使今天表示,美國已提供尼國衛生照顧援助,換取尼國摧毀六百五十七枚蘇聯製飛彈。這些飛彈是一九八零年代尼國為對抗美國支持反抗軍所購置。
美方長期向尼加拉瓜施壓,要求尼國摧毀這些防空飛彈,這是全球撤除老舊武器、以免它們落入恐怖份子之手所做的部分努力。
美國駐尼加拉瓜大使特里維利昨晚在電視新聞節目上表示,交換協議由最近前來拜會尼國衛生部的「(美國)國務院專精管理醫院、醫藥與科技裝備的團隊」擬定。
特里維利表示,目前尼加拉瓜約有一千枚飛彈,現在就看去年提議醫療換飛彈的尼國總統奧蒂嘉是否要簽署協議,交出其中的六百五十七枚。特里維利並未詳細說明醫療援助的內容。
奧蒂嘉表示,為了國家安全將保留約四百枚飛彈。
這種SAM-7型飛彈是奧蒂嘉所屬「桑定民族解放陣線」與美軍支持的尼加拉瓜反抗軍組織一九八零年代內戰遺留下來的武器。
二零零四年,前尼加拉瓜總統博拉紐摧毀一千枚SAM-7型飛彈。
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080729/pl_afp/nicaraguausmilitaryweapons_080729012722;_ylt=AmSwsCqais2i52lIXnQiqoSsOrgF
US offers Nicaragua health aid for missile destruction
Mon Jul 28, 9:27 PM ET
MANAGUA (AFP) - The United States has offered Nicaragua healthcare aid in exchange for the destruction of 657 Soviet-made missiles acquired to fight US-backed rebels in the 1980s, the US ambassador said here.
Washington has long pressured Nicaragua to destroy the anti-aircraft missiles as part of a global effort to remove old weapons that could fall into the hands of terrorists.
The exchange deal was prepared "by a team from the (US) Department of Defense specialized in the administration of hospitals, medicines, and technical equipment," who recently visited the country, and the Nicaraguan health ministry, said US ambassador Paul Trivelli on a television news program late Sunday.
It was now up to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who proposed the medical-missile exchange last year, to sign the deal to hand over 657 of some 1,000 missiles still held, Trivelli said, without detailing the medical aid.
Ortega has said he would keep some 400 missiles for national security reasons.
The SAM-7 missiles are remnants of the civil war between Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front and US-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s.
Former Nicaraguan president Enrique Bolanos destroyed 1,000 such missiles in 2004.
Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla and Cold War-era foe of the United States, was elected for a second term in 2006.