Obering argued that not only the Republicans, but also the Congress in which the Democrats have majority supported the building of missile defence, Parkanova said. Republican presidential candidate John McCain openly supports the missile defence project, while his rival candidate, Democrat Barack Obama, has a rather sceptical stance on it. In connection with the Iranian missile tests, Parkanova and Obering agreed that missile defence was necessary. "Its building cannot be postponed," Parkanova added. The U.S.
radar base, to be built at the Brdy military district, some 90km southwest of Prague, and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland is to be a part of the U.S. anti-missile shield. Rice, Schwarzenberg sign agreement on US radar base ...
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Projects ... These 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. Obering told CTK on Tuesday that Iran would be able to aim its missiles at Central Europe within two to three years. Iran today continued testing its missiles in the Persian Gulf. On Wednesday, it tested nine long- and medium-range missiles, as well as the new ballistic missile Shahab-3 that is allegedly able to hit an up to 2000km distant target. The information on the tests of Iranian missiles surfaced only a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, signed the main bilateral treaty on stationing the radar base on Czech soil in Prague on Tuesday. On this occasion, Rice also said she supposed that the next U.S. president should support the building of a missile defence system.
(Ceske Noviny)
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