The experts visited the area one week after the Czech military evicted Greenpeace activists, who had blocked it Czech opposition head wants to ask Rice not to sign radar treaty ...
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CzechRep to decide on possible Russian radar controls - PM ... for over a month in protest against the plan, from there. Cirtek said there was no direct connection between the experts' visit and the eviction of the activists. "The spot height 718 is part of the military district and sooner or later there will be the training that will need its use," Cirtek said. Cirtek said U.S.
experts did not have to visit directly the site of the future construction as they also could have visited the surrounding area. Cirtek said the experts would stay in the Czech Republic till Friday. The visit follows up military and technological consultations that took place last year, he added. Last and this years, a number of U.S. expert teams have examined the conditions for the U.S. radar base. The United States wants to build the radar base on the Brdy military grounds, 90 km southwest of Prague, and a base with ten interceptor missiles in Poland within its missile shield. The Central European elements are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch. The government has completed its talks with the USA on the main radar treaty, while the negotiations on the complementary SOFA treaty, dealing with U.S. soldiers' status on Czech territory still continue. Education Minister Ondrej Liska (junior ruling Greens) said today he wanted the bilateral treaty on the U.S. radar base on Czech soil to be ratified in Czech parliament only under a new U.S. president. Liska added that Greens chairman Martin Bursik shared this opinion.
(Ceske Noviny)
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