She said she might submit the relevant draft agreement to the cabinet next week. "This [Herculeses' supply] could be part of the agreement and maybe I will be able to hand such information to the government and to you next week," Parkanova told journalists. A Czech Foreign Minister to receive his Kosovo counterpart ...
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Police initiate charges against Czech-Afghan chamber head ... Czech diplomatic and military delegation negotiated about the Declaration on Strategic Cooperation in Washington in the past days. Under the plan, the Czech Republic and the USA should extend bilateral cooperation in military foreign missions, the exchange of information, including missile defence, and in science and research. The document has to be signed by the two countries' high-ranking politicians. Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak told CTK previously that Czechs in the USA had not discussed Washington's help in the modernisation of the Czech air force's transport planes.
He admitted, nevertheless, a possible acquisition of Herculeses by the Czech air force. Bartak said the Czech Republic seeks ways to secure the tactical transport of materiel to missions abroad. Prague reckons with the transport being secured by four small transport planes and two medium-sized ones, such as the Herculeses. At present, the Czechs use other international transport means and two military Airbuses. The military is also planning to buy a few transport planes from the Spanish company CASA. The Czech Defence Ministry has repeatedly dismissed speculations that negotiations similar to those about Herculeses are linked to Washington's plan to install its missile defence radar base on Czech soil. Nevertheless, the U.S.-Czech strategic dialogue was launched earlier this year after the Czech government approved the U.S. radar project.
(Ceske Noviny)
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