Sources from the foreign and defence ministries said the negotiations on the cooperation agreement, which is to enable Czech scientists and industrial companies to join the development of the U.S.
anti-missile defence system, have not been completed yet. Topolanek spoke about the agreement's signature after his meeting Rice says Czechs might travel to USA visa-free by year end ...
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Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ... with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who arrived in Prague this morning and signed the Czech-U.S. radar treaty with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg earlier this afternoon. "We believe we will close the negotiations this week," Ivan Dvorak, Czech Defence Ministry official in charge of the talks, told CTK today. Another U.S.-Czech treaty related to the radar base, which is yet to be signed, is the SOFA treaty dealing with U.S. soldiers' status in the Czech Republic. Both treaties must be approved by Czech parliament, where, however, the government is not sure of sufficient support for the U.S. radar plan. The agreement on industrial and scientific cooperation will mainly be an opportunity for Czech institutions and industrial companies to join the development of the U.S. missile defence system. The USA has signed similar agreements on industrial and scientific cooperation, which bring new chances for the partner states and their involvement in the research of sophisticated technologies, with only a few countries, such as Britain, Australia and Japan.
(Ceske Noviny)
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