Obama sends ex-Czech PM Fischer thank you note

US President Barack Obama wrote a thank you note to Jan Fischer when he stood down recently as Czech prime minister. Mr Obama congratulated the former Czech leader on his achievements and thanked him for exceptional hospitality during a summit in Prague in April at which the American president signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. In the letter, made public by a former Czech government spokesperson, he also wrote that during Mr Fischer’s tenure as the head of an interim government relations between Prague and Washington had deepened. Last September Mr Obama announced that his government was dropping a plan created by the previous US administration for an anti-missile shield that would have had bases in the Czech Republic and Poland.