Czech minister says Russian firms should not build nuclear plant


  • World
  • Tuesday, 04 Mar 2014

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Ministers from the two main Czech government parties said on Monday that Russian firms should not be allowed to take part in the expansion of a Czech nuclear power station, worth over $10 billion, after Russian troops seized Ukraine's Crimea region.

The Czechs, members of NATO and the European Union, have said Russian actions in Crimea over the weekend broke international law and government leaders likened the incursion to the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

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