The Czech and U.S. representatives have completed their talks on the planned U.S. radar base on the Czech soil that were launched a year ago, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Monday.
"I have information that the major problems might have been solved in the main treaty. Nothing prevents us from potentially declaring at the NATO summit in Bucharest the possibility to sign it," Topolanek said in an interview for Monday's issue of the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN).
He said the last "three words" that were not clear during his February visit to Washington have already been agreed on.
According to Topolanek, only the venue where the treaty would be signed has yet to be agreed on.
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said on Sunday treaties on the stationing of a U.S. radar base on the Czech soil could be signed in early May.
Topolanek said NATO would support the project in the final resolutions of its three-day summit starting on Wednesday.
"Everything else is concealed in the NATO analyses. No one doubts that this system is necessary," Topolanek told HN.
He stressed that the second bilateral treaty to create a legal framework for the stay of U.S. soldiers in the Czech Republic must yet be tuned up.
The United States plans to build a radar base in the Brdy military district, some 90 kilometers southwest of the Czech Republic's capital Prague, along with an interceptor missile base in neighboring Poland.
However, Russia has objected to the plan, saying it will threaten its national security.
Recent polls show around 70 percent of Czechs oppose the planned U.S. radar base in their country.
(Xinhua News Agency April 1, 2008)
