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The system will provide coverage of about 450 kilometres of coasts along the Red Sea and in front of the Eritrean and Somalian coasts and represents a first step of a complete surveillance programme including two further development phases.
The delivery, due to be completed within 2008, includes a national control centre in Sana
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