Czech Foreign Minister meets with US counterpart in wake of radar decision

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout met with his US counterpart Hillary Clinton on Monday. Discussions on the margins of the UN General Assembly centred on what shape relations between the two countries should now take after the US decision last week not to go ahead with its original missile defence plans in the Czech Republic and Poland. Mr Kohout said after the meeting that the two sides had examined civil areas where they could cooperate in the future and gave the example of stepped up Czech participation in US space programmes. Mrs Clinton mentioned broader research and development cooperation. She said on Friday that the two countries are frontrunners for a mobile missile defence system which the US would now like to roll-out in Europe.