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Klaus meets Cheney in Utah

Speech to Christian conservatives chides climate-change theories

By Lisa Nuch Venbrux
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
October 3rd, 2007 issue

After giving a speech to a secretive group of Christian conservatives, President Václav Klaus met with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Sept. 28 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“It was an informal meeting between two men who know each other quite well,” said Petr Kolář, Czech Ambassador to the United States who attended the 40-minute meeting. “Part of the chat was private, about their political experiences.”
During the chat, Klaus addressed hot-button issues including the proposed U.S. radar base.
“[Klaus] believes it is in our interest to cooperate with the U.S. on [the missile-defense shield] project,” Kolar said. Still, Klaus emphasized the need for a democratic decision-making process about whether to host the base — a process that could include a referendum.
Klaus also applauded visits by U.S. politicians to the Czech Republic. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is expected to visit later this month to discuss the shield.
Prior to the meeting, both Cheney and Klaus spoke at a conference held by the Council for National Policy (CNP), described in a 2004 New York Times report as “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country.”
According to the report, the CNP was founded in 1981 by Christian conservatives including Reverend Tim LaHaye, best-known for co-authoring the Left Behind series of novels that describes an apocalyptic second coming of Jesus.
CNP Executive Director Steve Baldwin, who once joked to ABC News that “we control everything in the world,” could not be reached by press time. A press spokesperson from Cheney's office said it does not provide readouts from the vice president's meetings, but that Cheney had been "pleased" to meet with Klaus.
Though CNP gatherings are held strictly out of the media spotlight, according to the Times, Klaus nonetheless published his speech to the group on his Web site, Klaus.cz.
He condemned the “irrationality” of considering climate change the main threat to mankind’s future, and urged financial backing for scientists who reject “global warming alarmism.”
Klaus closed the speech by quoting his own statements at a UN conference Sept. 24. “Let’s vote for adaptation, not for attempts to mastermind the global climate,” he had said at UN headquarters in New York City.
“There is nothing to add to [this statement],” Klaus told the CNP. “Especially to this audience.”

Lisa Nuch Venbrux can be reached at lvenbrux@praguepost.com


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