IV 

110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1349 

Commending the Government of the Czech Republic for formally agreeing 

to station on its territory a United States radar system for the purpose 

of tracking the trajectories of any ballistic missiles within its range 

that would threaten the collective security of the United States, the 

Czech Republic, and their North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 15, 2008 

Mr. TURNER (for himself, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. HUNTER, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. CRAMER, 

and Mr. EVERETT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Commending the Government of the Czech Republic for formally agreeing to station on its territory a United States 

radar system for the purpose of tracking the trajectories 

of any ballistic missiles within its range that would 

threaten the collective security of the United States, the 

Czech Republic, and their North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. 

Whereas the heads of state and governments of the member 

countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

(NATO) agreed at the April 3, 2008, meeting of the 

North Atlantic Council in Bucharest, Romania, that ‘‘balVerDate Aug 31 2005 02:48 Jul 16, 2008 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR1349.IH HR1349

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listic missile proliferation poses an increasing threat to 

Allies’ forces, territory and populations’’; 

Whereas as part of a broad response to counter the ballistic 

missile threat, the heads of state and governments of 

NATO member countries ‘‘recognize the substantial contribution to the protection of Allies from long-range ballistic missiles to be provided by the planned deployment 

of European-based United States missile defense assets’’; 

and 

Whereas the Government of the United States and the Government of the Czech Republic have reached a formal 

agreement on the stationing of a United States radar 

system in the Czech Republic with the understanding 

that such a radar system could track the trajectories of 

any ballistic missiles within its range and thus could play 

a key part of any future NATO-wide missile defense architecture: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) the Government of the Czech Republic is to 

4 be commended for formally agreeing to station on its 

5 territory a United States radar system for the pur6 pose of tracking the trajectories of any ballistic mis7 siles within its range that would threaten the collec8 tive security of the United States, the Czech Repub9 lic, and their North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

10 (NATO) allies; 

11 (2) this agreement will deepen the bilateral 

12 strategic relationship between the Governments of 


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1 the United States and the Czech Republic and could 

2 make a substantial contribution to NATO’s collec3 tive capability to counter existing and future ballistic 

4 missile threats; 

5 (3) this agreement is part of an expanding stra6 tegic dialogue between the United States and the 

7 Czech Republic to address a broad range of issues, 

8 including cooperation on mutual defense, counter9 terrorism, prevention of the proliferation of weapons 

10 of mass destruction, energy security, and democracy 

11 promotion; and 

12 (4) ratification of the agreement by the Par13 liament of the Czech Republic would be a welcome 

14 step in the process of strengthening relations with 

15 the United States and supporting the security objec16 tives of the NATO alliance. 

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