Top Czech politicians will meet Scheffer so they would not manage to have enough time to discuss a number of important topics with Rice, Pojar added. According to available information, Rice could only stay in Prague for a couple of hours next week. "We were prepared for further talks, but unfortunately the Secretary of State [Rice] was not able to secure it with regard to her programme in the Middle East and other places," Pojar said. Sheffer's visit to Prague on May 5 has been planned long beforehand, while Rice's trip has not been fully certain and confirmed. Sheffer will participate in a conference on missile defence and meet Czech President Vaclav Klaus, PM Mirek Topolanek, deputies and other politicians. Rice was originally expected to Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ...
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radar base on Czech soil. However, Czech politicians would like to debate not only the missile defence shield with Rice, but also the Czech Republic's EU presidency scheduled for the first half of 2009, the planned EU-U.S. summit, energy security and science and research, Pojar added. The United States plans to build a radar base in the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Prague, along with a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland as elements of the U.S. missile defence shield. Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg are to sign the main radar treaty in June. Apart from the main treaty, the Czech Republic and the United States must yet complete the negotiations on the SOFA treaty on the conditions of American soldiers' stay at the planned base on Czech soil. Topolanek said on Monday the Czech Republic and the The United States had agreed to sign both treaties together in early June. The treaties must then be passed by Czech parliament.
(Ceske Noviny)
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