The Czech-U.S.
treaty was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, in Prague on Tuesday. The supposed area of 100 hectares equals an area of about 140 football pitches of Sparta Praha in Prague's Letna neighbourhood. "It is possible that the Czech president says he is ready to sign treaty on U.S. radar ...
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Share of immigrants in Czech population growing-study, press ... Americans will also be accommodated outside the base, but no village for the U.S. personnel will emerge close to the base," first deputy foreign minister Tomas Pojar, chief Czech negotiator for the treaty, said today. The construction of the base at the Brdy military district, some 90km southwest of Prague, will only start after the treaty is ratified by parliament and signed by the president. Support for the treaty is not clear in the Chamber of Deputies for the time, however, while in the Senate, dominated by representatives of the senior ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the ratification is expected to be smooth. The Czech Republic provides the land to the Americans for free, but all real estate that the Americans will build in Brdy for their money and that they will operate will be owned by the Czech Republic, according to the treaty, Pojar said. He said this does not, of course, concern the radar itself and what the Americans will bring to the Czech Republic. Pojar said the treaty does not specify what the Americans can build at the base since it is not known, for instance, what security criteria will be valid in ten years. The radar itself will be U.S. commanded, but a Czech commander with a team will be present at the base. Visits by any foreigner, including possible Russian inspectors, will first of all be approved by Czech authorities, Pojar said. The two countries' flags will fly outside the base.
(Ceske Noviny)
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