“I don’t want to talk about it in detail. We are strong, our industry is strong, our technologies are strong… I think our friends, maybe even President Trump, will be pleased that the Czechs are putting this offer on the table,” said Babiš.
“We are in the initial phase of planning. We are formulating requirements for the skills that would be needed for such an operation,” he told Novinkám Zůna. According to him, it will be clearer when there is an agreement between the allies who will be involved.
On Friday, Britain and France are holding a video conference of approximately 40 countries willing to participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission in the Strait of Hormuz after the end of the conflict.
In addition to Macron, Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni should also participate in the video conference. This means that all four European states from the G7 group of leading democratic economies will be represented.
At the beginning of April, Babiš refused that the Czech Republic would be actively involved in the effort to restore traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, when US President Donald Trump called for it.
“Should we send an aircraft carrier there? We perceive Mr. Trump as having different expressions. That’s the system, that he throws a grenade and then deals with it. So we’ll wait to see how it all develops,” the prime minister said at the beginning of the month.
In the Middle East, there is now a fragile two-week truce in the war against Iran, which the USA and Israel launched at the end of February. But this week the United States started a blockade of Iranian ports, the aim of which is to limit Iran’s income from the sale of oil.
Before the war, about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the Strait of Hormuz, which is still blocked by Iran.
