The Czech Republic has accomplished the ratification of a protection treaty with the US that deepens army cooperation and makes it simpler to deploy U.S. troops in Czech territory
FILE – NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg talks to US military troopers whereas visiting Prague, Czech Republic, on Sept. 9, 2015. The Czech Republic has accomplished the ratification of an protection treaty with the US that deepens army cooperation and make it simpler to deploy U.S. troops on Czech territory. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s signature on Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023 was the ultimate step within the ratification strategy of the Protection Cooperation Settlement. (AP Photograph/Petr David Josek, File)
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PRAGUE — The Czech Republic on Wednesday accomplished the ratification of a protection treaty with the US that deepens army cooperation and makes it simpler to deploy U.S. troops in Czech territory.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s signature was the ultimate step within the ratification strategy of the Protection Cooperation Settlement, which had been endorsed by each homes of Parliament in July and by President Petr Pavel on Aug 1.
The doc units a authorized framework for attainable deployment of U.S. troops within the nation at a time of Russian aggression in opposition to Ukraine.
Czech Protection Minister Jana Cernochova signed the treaty along with U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington, D.C. on Might 23. The U.S. has comparable agreements with 24 different NATO members, together with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria that kind the jap flank of the alliance.
Any deployment of U.S. forces would nonetheless want approval by the Czech authorities and Parliament.
