He added that the organisers would hand over the sheets with signatures to the Chamber of Deputies petition committee on Tuesday.The KSM intends to keep organising anti-radar petitions and meetings, mainly during the lower house debate on the Czech-U.S.
radar treaties, Krajca said, adding the base is opposed by Lowest US monthly deaths in Iraq ...
Talks on treaty on U.S. troops' stay in CzechRep still underway ... some two-thirds of Czechs.The lower house petition committee has received other anti-radar petitions as well. The No to Bases group submitted a petition with 50,000 signatures to the committee in August.The Interior Ministry dissolved the KSM in October 2006, saying its programme, which calls for the abolition of the private ownership of production means and its replacement with public ownership, is at variance with the constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms.The KSM officials then filed a complaint against the decision with the Supreme Administrative Court.The radar to be built at the Brdy military district, some 90km southwest of Prague, and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland are elements of the U.S. missile defence shield to protect the United States and Europe against missiles that states like Iran might launch.Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed the main radar treaty in Prague in July.Last week Prague and Washington allegedly completed the negotiations on the complementary SOFA treaty that defines the legal status of U.S. soldiers on Czech territory. The Defence Ministry said its text is complete, and only details must yet be tuned up.The Czech government is to deal with the SOFA treaty this or next week.The treaties must be ratified by parliament and signed be President Vaclav Klaus to take effect.
(Ceske Noviny)
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