Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar will visit the United States to discuss security cooperation, involving the anti-missile defense with U.S. leaders next Thursday, the Czech news agency CTK reported on Thursday.
Pojar will meet William Burns, under secretary for Political Affairs of the Department of State, CTK said.
They will focus on the current NATO activities, military cooperation in Afghanistan, priorities of the Czech Republic in its EU presidency, modernization of the Czech military, strategy of energy security and regional questions, including Georgia and Kosovo, CTK added.
The Czech Republic and the United States opted for the dialogue that is to improve the bilateral relations in the long run this February.
The Czech Republic asked for the opening of the talks in connection with the talks on the stationing of a U.S. radar in the Czech Republic, according to CTK.
Czech media called the talks with the United States "strategic dialogue", which the United States only launched with a narrow group of countries, such as Australia, China, Israel, Japan, Norway and Saudi Arabia.
The United States plans to build a radar base in the Czech Republic, along with an interceptor missile base in Poland, as part of its missile defense shield.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart Schwarzenberg signed the main treaty on the base in early July.
Russia strongly opposes the deployment of the missile defense system, saying the plan poses a threat to its national security. Czech opposition parties and some 70 percent of Czech citizens also oppose the project.
The radar treaties are yet to be ratified by the Czech parliament. It is not clear whether the Czech government will muster enough votes for the treaty's ratification in parliament.
Source:Xinhua
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