NATO Chief Calls On U.S. To Accelerate Technology Transfer Approval Process

By John Liang / October 23, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The United States needs to accelerate its export control review process, NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson said yesterday during a visit to the United States. "Here in Washington, my message is, and will continue to be, 'Remove the alibis,' because the Europeans for years have complained that they would like to do more, but the United States was unwilling to transfer the necessary technology," Robertson said in a speech at the Brookings Institute. "Sometimes they said it was 'buy American,...

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