USA and The Czech Republic Agree On Anti – Missile Shield Location

At the Bucharest NATO Summit, the USA and The Czech Republic reached Thursday an agreement on the American anti – missile shield location on the Czech territory, it is said in a joint press declaration at Bucharest.

"USA and the Czech Republic are pleased to announce that the negotiations over the anti – missile shield agreement have been concluded. We intend to sign the agreement in the near future. This agreement represents an important step forward to protect our people and our NATO allies from the more and more visible threat represented by the ballistic missile proliferation and by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction", a press release informs.

The agreement stipulates locating a radar station on the territory of The Czech Republic. Its mission is to detect ballistic missile launches. The respective radar station will be connected to douzines of missile interceptors that are to be installed in Poland.

Washington and Warsaw are still discussing on this matter, because Poland asks for a supplemetary support for modernising the Polish army in exchange of signing this agreement.

NATO leaders agreed Thursday, at the Bucharest NATO Summit, on the full support to the American project concerning the anti – missile shield.

Taken from Bucharest Rompres

No Foolin! Germany, France To Propose Jointly Hosting 2009 NATO Summit

Germany, France to Propose Jointly Hosting 2009 NATO Summit

Germany and France have offered to jointly host NATO's 60th anniversary summit next year at two sites near the Franco-German border.

German government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said the two governments will formally make the offer during this week's NATO summit in the Romanian capital.

As proposed, the 2009 meeting in Strasbourg and the nearby German town of Kehl would mark the first time a NATO summit would be hosted by more than one country.

Wilhelm said the proposal is meant to underscore the importance of German-French friendship and of NATO's role in European post-World War II reconciliation.

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NATO Bucharest Summit - 3 Days

NAC Statement On CFE

1. NATO Allies remain firmly committed to the CFE Treaty and wish to achieve the earliest possible entry into force of the Agreement on Adaptation.

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NATO’s Agenda For Bucharest

Heads of State and Government from the 26 NATO nations, partners and other representatives from major international institutions will meet in Bucharest, Romania on 2-4 April to discuss NATO enlargement and operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo. The Summit will be NATO’s biggest ever, in terms of the number of partners and international organisations present.

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NATO To Launch New TV Channel At Summit

During the Bucharest Summit on 2-4 April, NATO will launch a new web-based television channel, meant to improve understanding of the Alliance roles, operation and missions.

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Religion Is Now A Potential Ally Of Radical Social Change

Militant secularists are becoming apologists for capitalism and war, but the struggle is within faiths, not against them.


For the militant secularists whose voices have grown ever louder in recent years, O'Brien's is the only face of religion that matters. This has been the decade of liberal rage against religion, reflected in the runaway success of books like Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great. In the eyes of secular absolutists - whose attitudes uncannily mirror those of religious literalists - religion is simply an intellectual travesty, a perverse belief in a supernatural being and an affront to the enlightenment that refuses to die. As the novelist Martin Amis declared recently: "Opposition to religion occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally."

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