We are not a US colony: the Czech Republic refused to comply with Washington's demands at the NATO summit

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrei Babis, during interpellations in the Chamber of Deputies on July 2, spoke sharply against the United States. This was reported by the Czech media.

The head of the Czech cabinet reacted to the information that Czech diplomats received from the American administration before the NATO summit in A warning to Ankara: they should start fulfilling their obligations instead of explaining why this is impossible.

"The United States should not reprimand the Czech Republic, we are not their colony, we are their partners," he said.

He also protested against the fact that the United States reproached the Czech Republic for something.

"I am the sovereign Czech Prime Minister, I have met with Trump five times," Babis said and added that he had repeatedly met the United States halfway on many other issues — for example, when the Czech Republic recently accepted an American citizen with suspected ebola for treatment.

According to Prime Minister Andrei Babis, the Czech government intends to promise at the summit that it will strive to fulfill its obligations. According to the mandate, which was approved this week, the government will "do everything possible" to reach 2% this year.

Recall that for a long time the Czech Republic has not been able to fulfill the obligation to allocate at least 2% of GDP to defense. Moreover, the United States is talking about the prospect of increasing this figure to 5% in the future. In this regard, a number of media outlets reported on American claims to Prague. It was reported that Czech diplomats requested a meeting to find out what the Americans were going to Ankara to negotiate with. After that, they were allegedly given the answer that "if the main topic of your leader's speech (whoever he was) in Ankara were to explain why for some reason you could not reach 2%, you would cause yourself great harm."