Czech Foreign Minister due to meet US counterpart

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout is due to meet with his US counterpart Hillary Clinton on Monday. Discussions on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting are expected to centre on the US decision last week not to go ahead with its original missile defence plans in the Czech Republic and Poland. In June of last year the Czech and US governments signed an agreement for the Czech Republic to host an anti-missile radar which would have been twinned with interceptor missiles in Poland. Mrs Clinton 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.