PRAGUE, June 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George. W.
Bush will pay a two-day working visit to Prague, the capital of the Czech
republic, on 4th and 5th June when he will meet Czech leaders to talk about the
planned U.S. radar base.
Bush will arrive in Prague in late evening hours on Monday.
All flights scheduled for the evenings on Monday and
Tuesday will be delayed by some 30 minutes, the airport's spokeswoman Eva Krejci
said.
Apart from the Ruzyne airport, Prague Castle and
adjoining streets will also be closed during Bush's visit and traffic on the
Prague motorway is likely to be partly restricted.
Bush will be accompanied by John Negroponte, Rice's
deputy and the number two person at the U.S. State Department and Stephen
Hadley, Bush's assistant for national security affairs.
On Tuesday, Bush will meet Czech President Vaclav
Klaus at Prague Castle as well as Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and
senior opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) Chairman Jiri Paroubek.
Bush will mainly discuss the planned stationing of
the U.S. missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. The U.S. would
like to construct a radar base in the Brdy training area southwest of Prague.
During the visit, he will deliver a half-an-hour
address at a conference on democracy that will be held at the Foreign Ministry
on Tuesday afternoon. He will also visit a library in the center of Prague.
Bush will drop in the Czech Republic during his
journey to the G8 summit to be held in Germany on June 6-8.
The U.S. made a formal request in January to place a
radar base in a military area southwest of Prague and 10 interceptor missiles in
neighboring Poland as part of a planned global missile defense shield.
The first round of Czech-U.S. talks on the radar base
was completed in May. The talks are to last several months. The U.S. expects the
Czechs to give a clear final answer on the base after January 1, 2008.
Tene, Czech republic, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Some 70 percent
of participants voiced a negative position on the planned U.S. anti-missile base
in a local referendum, Mayor of Tene, West Bohemia area, Julius Rusnak said on
Saturday.
In the referendum, 139 out of 199 voters voiced
agreement with the town hall taking all legal steps against the stationing of
the U.S. radar base in the Brdy military area. Full story
WASHINGTON, June 1
(Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush defended on Friday U.S. plan to deploy
a missile defense shield in East Europe while trying to soothe Russia's concern
over the disputed missile defense program.
"It's aimed at rogue regimes that would use a missile
to achieve political objective or to create unrest," Bush said of the U.S. plan
in an interview with foreign press. Full story
PRAGUE, May 51 (Xinhua) -- Czech Prime Minister Mirek
Topolaneksaid here Thursday that the planned U.S. missile defense system in the
Czech Republic and Poland would not be aimed at Russia.
The anti-missile shield, parts of which the United
States wants to base in the Czech Republic and Poland, is not an attack system
and is necessary for European security, Topolanek said at a gathering of main
Czech government and parliamentary leaders on the issues of the U.S.
anti-missile defense system. Full story
PRAGUE, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Czech and
U.S. representatives ended on Friday two-day consultations about the legal
status of the U.S. anti-missile radar system planned to build in the Czech
republic and the personnel of the planned base.
The two side discussed the issue on penal
responsibility, rate paying and medical treatment of the U.S. soldiers in the
possible base. Full story
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