Czech Government Ready To Sign US Radar Deal

PRAGUE (AFP)--The Czech government is preparing to sign an agreement in principle over the deployment of part of a U.S. anti-missile shield on its soil in the face of strong public opposition.

The fruit of months of negotiations, the agreement, covering the installation of a tracking radar which would be twinned with an anti-missile silo, probably in neighboring Poland, should be signed Tuesday at 1300 GMT by Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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