The agreement will be ready within weeks, not months, Pojar said, adding that there are only a few paragraphs left to be agreed upon.
He did not, however, elaborate which controversial points remain to be solved. The Czech Republic has been negotiating with the USA about the possible location of a U.S. missile defence radar base in the Brdy military area, some 90km southwest of Prague, for about a year now. According to U.S. experts, the Czech Republic and Poland, where a base for ten interceptor missiles is to be placed, have an ideal position for the Czechs consider organised crime biggest threat-poll ...
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Czech military monitored Iranian plane - press ... location of the U.S. missile defence shield. The Czech centre-right government favours the project, while the left opposition and 70 percent of Czech citizens are opposed to the base, according to public opinion polls. Besides the main agreement on the construction of the radar base, the Czech government also wants a treaty to be signed that would define the legal conditions for the stay of U.S. troops in the Czech Republic. The possible stationing of the radar base in the Czech Republic also has to be approved by Czech parliament.
(Ceske Noviny)
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