President Klaus: Russia is not a security threat

Attending a military parade in Moscow to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said he did not regard present-day Russia as a security threat and regretted the fact that some people in the Czech Republic persisted in viewing it as such. The president noted that the presence of Western statesmen and soldiers on Moscow’s Red Square this year – for the first time since the war -was a clear signal of a shift in relations towards greater trust and cooperation.