Paroubek: Parliament won’t approve radar treaties

In related news, Social Democrat leader Jiří Paboubek said on Saturday that Parliament would not approve treaties with the US on positioning an American radar base on Czech territory during the current electoral term. Mr Paroubek said that his party wanted to sweep the treaties off the table last week but the government pulled them out of the Chamber of Deputies. The stance of the Social Democrats was appreciated by the deputy speaker of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, Alexander Babakov, who is a guest at the congress. Mr Babakov said that Czech-Russian relations had recently been very active, mainly thanks to the Czech Social Democrats.