MOSCOW. Sept 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is complaining about "increasingly frequent acts of vandalism in the Czech Republic against Soviet military graves" and urges Prague to "strictly fulfill commitments enshrined in the current intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the protection of war memorials."
The point was made by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov at a meeting in Moscow with a Czech parliamentary delegation led by Jan Hamacek, chairman of the lower house international affairs committee, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a press release posted on its website, www.mid.ru.
Titov and the delegation also raised "international issues, including problems of European security in the context of U.S. plans to deploy missile defense elements on Czech territory, the situation surrounding the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, and the situation in the Kosovo settlement process," the release said.