WARSAW: Poland announced Tuesday it will hold exclusive talks with the US government on a multi-billion-euro air defense missile contract seen as key to military upgrades accelerated in response to tensions with neighboring Russia.

President Bronislaw Komorowski announced the decision. The US company Raytheon’s Patriot system and another system by the Eurosam consortium—that includes MBDA France, MBDA Italy and France’s Thales Group—had been in the running for the estimated 5 billion euro ($5.4 billion) deal.

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