Rice will visit the Czech Republic to sign the Czech-U.S.
treaty on the stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil. Tamas and Majicek said the signing of the treaty by Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg did not mean the end of protests and their No to Bases group wanted to focus on the autumn regional and Senate elections. Tamas said No to Bases only planned a rally at Prague's Wenceslas Square at 18:00 on Tuesday and no other events were being prepared. "I have sent a request for a meeting with Rice to U.S. ambassador Richard Graber," Tamas said. "We'd like to meet her and pass our position to her. We'd Most Czechs indifferent to Czech EU presidency - poll ...
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Czech authorities ban two anti-gay rallies ... like to tell her that roughly two-thirds of Czechs are against the stay of foreign troops on Czech soil," he added. He said the protesters would march from the Wenceslas Square across the Mustek and Malostranska streets to the U.S. embassy. Tamas said the protest would be peaceful and no conflict with police was expected. Polls say some 70 percent of Czechs are against the project. The United States wants to build the radar base at the Brdy military district, some 90km southwest of Prague, and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland within its missile shield. The Central European elements are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch. On Wednesday morning, Rice will fly to Poland.
(Ceske Noviny)
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