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Titolo: cresce l'opposizione allo scudo USA nel parlamento ceco

Bush missile shield a tough sell in parliament
By Bruce I. Konviser
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 5, 2007 
PRAGUE -- Opposition to President Bush's missile-defense plan is growing
in the Czech Republic, with critics in the nation's evenly divided
parliament campaigning against the effort ahead of Mr. Bush's arrival
yesterday. 
    The plan, which would station a radar base in the Czech Republic and
10 interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland, is expected to dominate a
brief summit this morning with Mr. Bush, President Vaclav Klaus and Prime
Minister Mirek Topolanek. 
    "The situation ... is a fiasco of public diplomacy of the United
States government [and] the Czech government, which has not been able
[until] now to answer the concerns and questions of people," said Ondrej
Liska, a lawmaker of the Green Party. 
    Because opposition parties already hold half the seats in parliament,
approval of the U.S. base was always iffy. But with the Greens one of
three parties in Mr. Topolanek's fragile center-right government,
opposition from Mr. Liska and others makes passage even more problematic. 
    "Missile defense makes sense strategically; it makes sense
geopolitically," said government spokesman Tomas Klvana. 
    "Our strategic goal is to use this American missile defense as a
complement to the NATO missile-defense structure. And in the future, [to]
have a common architect that protects Europe," he said. 
    The U.S. says the missile defense would protect against rockets
launched by Iran, but Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is aimed at
Russia and this week threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Western
European capitals if the system is built. 
    U.S. officials say Mr. Putin's Cold War rhetoric is unlikely to halt
the project. But Czech opposition has gone largely unnoticed in the
Western press. 
    In recent weeks, nearly a dozen Czech villages surrounding the
proposed radar base have held nonbinding referendums, all voting
overwhelmingly against the U.S. plan. 
    Earlier this year, public opinion was a little more than 50 percent
against the radar base here, but many Czechs say the issue was thrust upon
them with little explanation. The latest polls show opposition at well
over 60 percent. 
    "From the very birth of this idea, the American side tried to keep a
low profile of this issue," said Mr. Liska, who chairs the parliamentary
committee for European affairs. 
    "But once you have something bigger than what you pretend, and you try
to keep a low profile, it will flip, and it will become a much bigger
issue than you have ever expected. And this is what happened," he said. 
    Many in the Green Party want a full transfer of U.S. control of the
project to NATO command, eliminating all bilateral treaties, as the price
of their support. That, they say, would ensure a broader, European
discussion about the threats and potential countermeasures. 
    Those views are echoed by the leading opposition party, the Social
Democrats. 
    "I believe one of the side effects of the approach that's perceived by
the U.S. administration is the division of Europe into the Old and New
Europe, as [former Defense Secretary Donald H.] Rumsfeld once said. And
this I obviously see as a threat to the political integration of Europe,"
said Jan Hamacek, who chairs parliament's International Affairs Committee
for the Social Democrats. 
    "I believe in further integration and such [bilateral treaties] would
be an obstacle," he said. 
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 June 5, 2007
Se la richiesta dei Verdi č quella di decidere la questione a livello UE e 
NATO, allora tale sviluppo č piů che positivo: č lě che la questione deve 
essere discussa e decisa.
Ciao,
Federico Antola. 

 THE WASHINGTON TIMES
sergio che cita un articolo da un giornale posseduto dagli amici degli amici
degli amici di Tonibaruch. Mah...
N.B. per chi non conosce la catena di cui sopra: Chiesa dell'Unificazione >
P2-maoisti-socialisti USA > equivalenti italiani (P2-PSI-FI)

 P2-maoisti-socialisti USA > equivalenti italiani (P2-PSI-FI)
L'hai letto su "fotografare", vero?
Tb
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 degli amici di Tonibaruch. Mah...
è la notiza che danno che mi interessava non gli amici degli amici di
tonibaruch