Pojar is currently discussing cooperation with the launched strategic dialogue, following with the Czech government's promise to locate a U.S.
radar base on Czech soil.He said U.S. experts will arrive the Czech Republic in the autumn to focus on further possibilities to cooperate.Pojar met Henry Obering, chief of the U.S. Missile Defence Agency (MDA) that is to finance the projects.He confirmed the information that the Czech projects were to receive the U.S. financial support in September or October.Eight projects, submitted by the Czech Academy of Sciences, universities as well as Czech, US experts close talks on industrial cooperation agreement ...
Czechs donate three more helicopters to Afghanistan ... private firms, had been shortlisted in eight fields, such as nanomaterial, robotics, laser technology, radiolocation equipment and medicine, Vladimir Marik, from the Czech Technical University (CVUT), said earlier this week.Pojar said apart from research his team discussed energy and military affairs with U.S. representatives.The Czech daily E15 wrote that the Czech Republic allegedly wants the USA to help it acquire a stake in the Trans Alpine Pipeline (TAL) in order to lower the country's dependence on oil from Russia.The Reuters news agency reported that Prague was interested in U.S. help in modernising military transport aircraft that the Czech military needs to fly its troops to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.The United States plans to build a radar base in the Czech Republic and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland as part of the anti-missile shield that are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch.The Czech-U.S. main treaty on the radar was signed in July, but it is yet to be ratified by parliament in which the project may not have sufficient support. A majority of Czechs oppose the radar.
(Ceske Noviny)
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