The Defence Ministry said this in its report on the meeting with Russian General Yevgeni Buzhinski, a negotiator on the anti-radar defence. Buzhinski, whose presence in the Czech Republic when the Czech-U.S.
treaty on the anti-missile radar base was signed caused some embarrassment, today met Ivan Dvorak, Czech negotiator with Americans. During the meeting with Buzhinski, Czechs voiced a clear concern over the threats by some Russian representatives, Jan Pejsek from the Defence Ministry press department said. Russia is resolutely against the U.S. plan to build the European part of an anti-missile system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Russia said it would have to react News ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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