The Senate supported the government's proposal last week. The vote on the mission was dramatic as three deputies from the junior government Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ...
Roithova to lead Czech KDU-CSL candidates in EP election ... parties, Olga Zubova, Vera Jakubkova (both Greens, SZ) and Ludvik Hovorka (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL), voted against it. The government, which has only 100 seats in the 200-seat lower house, did not have enough votes to push the proposal through first. However, some opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) supported the proposal in the second vote, so the Chamber passed the Afghan mission in the end. Czech troops will fulfil combating tasks under U.S.
command in Afghanistan. They will participate in special anti-terrorist operations. Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) said previously the soldiers might be deployed within the Enduring Freedom operation in very dangerous parts of Afghanistan and that they would not be part of NATO units. Members of the 601st group of special forces from Prostejov had already operated in Afghanistan in 2004 and 2006. The parliament decided that the troops would serve in Afghanistan by the end of the year. However, Parkanova said the government expected the mission to continue next year as well. The government puts the costs of the Prostejov special unit's mission at 213 million crowns, which will be paid from the Defence Ministry's budget. The transport costs will be covered by the United States on which request the Czech government proposed the soldiers' deployment.
(Ceske Noviny)
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