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Czech Republic Won’t Have Interceptors In Addition to Radar
A scandal broke out in the Czech Republic past weekend after Polish Gazeta Wyborcza reported about the alleged intention of Pentagon to deploy not only a radar station but also a missile base in the country. The Czech leaders had to interrupt the vocation to deny the news. As to the radar station, the treaty for stationing it in the Czech Republic will be inked in Prague May 5, during the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The exorbitant appetite of Warsaw in part of the compensation for hosting a base of the U.S. interceptors triggered a general discontent in Washington and Warsaw was made to understand that Pentagon may cross the Poland’s section out of its missile defense plans. U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant-General Henry Obering voiced the respective statement one of these days.
Polish Gazeta Wyborcza responded in no time, reporting on Friday about the secret negotiations of Washington and Prague on setting up a missile base in the region of radar’s stationing. Exactly that topic had been the highlight during the meetings of U.S. and Czech policymakers at the NATO summit in Bucharest, the edition reported.
The Czech leaders denied rumors in no time. According to Czech media, if they had discussed anything in Bucharest off-the-record, it had been establishing a missile base in Romania instead of Poland.
It has also emerged that the treaty on U.S. radar in the Czech Republic will be inked on May 5, during the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Prague. The supplementary agreement that will spell out the provisions for stationing the U.S. military in the Czech Republic hasn’t been completely worked out. So far, the parties are unable to come to terms about the jurisdiction that will be in force for the U.S. troops in the Czech Republic.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 21, 2008
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