Czech minister sings pro-U.S. radar base song as gift for Bush
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[June 04, 2007]

Czech minister sings pro-U.S. radar base song as gift for Bush

(Czech News Agency Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Prague, June 4 (CTK) - Czech Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova has sung a song in support of the planned construction of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic, which she wants to present as a gift for U.S. President George W. Bush who will arrive in Prague this evening. Parkanova told CTK that the song is to counterbalance "the tense and negative campaign accompanying the debate about the radar base." She said she would personally give the CD with the song to Bush on Tuesday during the official talks between the Czech and U.S. delegations. Bush is to discuss with top Czech politicians especially the possible stationing of elements of the U.S. missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. The USA would like to locate a radar system in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland. The system is to protect both the United States and Europe against the threat of a rocket attack by countries such as Iran. Parkanova, a jazz singer in the past, addressed musician and text writer Jan Vycital on the issue in May during the celebrations of Victory in Plzen, west Bohemia, which was liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. The song borrows the melody of a famous Czech hit "Good afternoon, Mr Gagarin," composed after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin travelled into space as the first human in 1961. Recent polls show Czechs consider Parkanova (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) the most trustworthy Czech politician, apart from President Vaclav Klaus. Vycital said he wanted to show his attitude to anti-American gatherings organised in the Czech Republic. "I disliked the press writing about protests and demonstrations on and on. The Americans could get the feeling that nobody here (in the Czech Republic) who would remember who liberated the country and then has never occupied it," he said, referring to the USA and the Soviet Union. Nada Noskova from the Multisonic music agency told CTK that Parkanova sang in Czech, but that the song had also an English text. kva/dr/pv



Copyright 2007 Czech News Agency, Source: The Financial Times Limited

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