US, Poland, Reach Tentative Deal on Missile Defense

By David Gollust
State Department
02 July 2008

U.S. officials say the United States and Poland have reached a tentative agreement under which part of a U.S. missile defense system will be based on Polish soil. The deal to station interceptor missiles in Poland still requires top-level Polish government approval. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department....

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-02-voa64.cfm

By VOA News
03 July 2008

Polish officials are downplaying reports that they have reached agreement with the U.S. on plans to base part of an American missile shield in Poland....


http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-03-voa84.cfm

By VOA News
04 July 2008
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the latest U.S. incentive for Poland to host part of a U.S. missile defense system is unsatisfactory.

The Polish leader told reporters in Warsaw Friday that his country remains open for further talks on the issue. He called the latest U.S. offer to boost Polish air defenses insufficient. Mr. Tusk said any deal must strengthen Poland's security, upgrade its defenses and include permanent deployment of American Patriot anti-missile systems in Poland, instead of only for a year as the U.S. offered....

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-04-voa52.cfm

By Stefan Bos
Budapest
08 July 2008

The United States and the Czech Republic have signed an agreement that will allow construction of part of a missile defense shield. Stefan Bos from Budapest that the document was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart, despite mounting opposition against the project....
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-08-voa26.cfm

By David Gollust
State Department
07 July 2008

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met her Polish counterpart, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, for more talks on a possible Polish role in a U.S. regional missile defense system in Europe. Rice leaves Washington late Monday on a European mission to conclude a missile defense deal with the Czech Republic. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-07-voa17.cfm

Russia has said it will use military means if the United States deploys a missile defence shield close to its borders.
The foreign ministry said: "If the real deployment of an American strategic missile defence shield begins close to our borders, then we will be forced to react not with diplomatic methods, but with military-technical methods."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/20087818222432698.html

By VOA News
09 July 2008
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Georgia just hours after a deadly firefight between Georgian troops and separatists in a Russian-backed breakaway region...

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-09-voa21.cfm

By VOA News
10 July 2008

Czech officials are accusing Russia of interfering in their internal affairs by threatening military action against a planned U.S. missile defense system on Czech soil...
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-10-voa57.cfm

By VOA News 18 June 2008

Lithuania's defense minister says his country would consider hosting parts of a U.S. missile defense system if asked, but says no talks on the subject are underway.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-06-18-voa35.cfm

By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Published: July 12, 2008

MOSCOW — Three days after the Czech Republic signed an agreement with the United States to host a tracking radar for an antiballistic missile system that Russia vehemently opposes, the authorities in Prague said the flow of Russian oil to their country was beginning to dwindle.
In a statement on Friday, Czech officials declined to link the reduced supply to the deal signed Tuesday in Prague. Still, though the flow of oil can vary for technical reasons, it was clear that the Czechs suspected a connection and intended to ask the Russians to explain the decline...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/world/europe/12czech.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin