Missile Defense Agreement With the Czech Republic

Secretary Rice and Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg

July 8, 2008

Secretary Rice: "This is an agreement that is supported by our NATO allies, as was noted at Bucharest at the summit, because missile defenses today are aimed only at those who would threaten us. They are not like the missile defenses of the Cold War period, which were caught up in discussions about strategic stability. We’ve made the point to our Russian colleagues that we all face the threat from states like Iran that continue to pursue missiles of ever-longer range, and we must be in a position to respond." (more)

The complete text of the Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement (pdf, 88 KB)