Current Affairs Dienstbier: US unlikely to build radar base in Czech Republic
Two weeks into the new Obama administration some have expressed doubts over the future of US missile defence in central Europe. Last year the Czech Republic signed two treaties with the US on the stationing of a radar base on Czech soil – part of a broader defence shield – but on Sunday the head of the Czech foreign affairs committee, Jiří Dienstbier, expressed doubts it would ever be built. In his view, the US currently has other priorities, and he told Czech TV, the only way the radar would ever be deployed in the Czech Republic would be with NATO and Russian involvement. Earlier Jan Velinger spoke to Jiří Dienstbier on the phone from Kladno. He asked him to explain the apparent shift by US and why he thinks the radar in the Czech Republic is unlikely.
Jiří Dienstbier
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