Mull, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Poland.
Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, bits of Poland, have long been part of our economic and cultural area.
It is certainly not a model of diplomacy when the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic are informed of such a decision at the last minute in midnight phone calls.
Wayne Hennessey, David Edwards and Sam Vokes are off to Denmark with the Welsh squad, while Andy Keogh and Kevin Foley link up with the Republic of Ireland to face Poland in Dublin.
The United States has also concluded agreements with the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic that will allow the fielding of ten land-based interceptors and an X-band radar, respectively, in the two nations.
Such taxpayer financial assistance to a non-democratic government means the diversion of resources that should instead be available for the emerging democracies of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Republic of Lithuania.
President Obama's alienating of Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras and other allies in the vain hope of currying favor with their foes, and ours.
In recent months, the United States has undertaken important new security commitments with the Czech Republic and Poland in the face of emerging threats to those countries, the rest of Europe and indeed the Free World more generally from a regime whose aspirations are arguably even more ominous than even those of the Nazis: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
They include Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
The Kremlin is especially upset over plans to install components of the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, both former Soviet Bloc countries that are now members of NATO and the European Union.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) claims the siting of similar stations in the former Soviet states of Poland and the Czech Republic, and the power imbalance that would be caused if the West became impervious to nuclear attack, could provoke a new Cold War.
This means that, even if we accept the optimistic forecast provided by the Ukrainian government itself, the country would still be importing about 1, 850 billion cubic feet a year, more than the combined 2008 natural gas imports of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (which are cumulatively about 1, 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas for a population of about 93.5 million).
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" Based on the President's decision announced to scrap the planned deployment of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, however, we now know, that Team Obama's version of resetting would best be translated as "capitulation.
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Already nervous of furious Russian reactions over the U.S. missile defense plan, which involves the installation of bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, they have made clear they don't reckon it worth upsetting the Kremlin further on this issue.
In practice only three can be certain of an invitation: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
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Two of the newest members of the alliance, Poland and the Czech Republic, strongly supported missile defence.
There is speculation that he will slow the deployment of missile defences in Poland and the Czech Republic (see article).
They are Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary, generally reckoned the best prepared of the bunch, together with the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia.
Poland and the Czech Republic had based much of their future security policy on getting the missile defenses from the United States.
The Bush-era proposal called for the United States to set up a radar site in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland to counter the threat of Iran launching long-range missiles at America's allies in Europe.
Ignoring indications of growing Russian hostility to US strategic interests - most clearly evidenced in Russia's opposition to the deployment of US anti-missile batteries in the Czech Republic and Poland and in Russia's strategic relations with Iran and Syria - Gates advocated building "collaborative and cooperative relations" with the Russian military.
While the United States stands firm on limiting this round of expansion to Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the NATO official said a final decision will be made only after debate among the leaders of the NATO countries that could be preceded by a meeting of NATO foreign ministers Tuesday morning.
The controversy surrounding contamination of meat products has also affected firms in the Irish Republic and Poland.
Then Bill Clinton declared he would support only Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic as new members of the alliance.
The EPP did well, thanks to strong centre-right showings in some of the new members, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
The result has been to confound our allies, including Poland and the Czech Republic, and signal a lack of resolve to defend against the Iranian threat.
Putin also complained about U.S. plans to put part of its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, and he complained about new forward bases in Romania and Bulgaria.
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Both Poland and the Czech Republic are members in good standing of NATO and of the European Union: they are as ensconced in the American-designed European security architecture as it is possible to be.
The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic -- where key elements of the system were to be located -- but was the first confirmation from an American official.
So why pull the rug out from under our plans to deploy missile defense assets in Europe, thereby alienating two of our best allies Poland and the Czech Republic in the war against terrorists?
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